Elixir

Event Bus Implementation(s)

Event-driven architecture pattern is a distributed asynchronous architecture pattern to create highly scalable…

Registry in Elixir 1.4

Manage process identifiers easily with Registry

When to use processes in Elixir - Part 1: Storing state

Re-design with Elixir/OTP and Pattern Matching

Software design is a difficult job and design should change according to the…

Dynamically Loading a Module in Elixir

Elixir way of keeping code clear and reusable is creating modules and importing them when needed. However import method is easy to use for static module names, it requires more afford to load dynamically assigned modules.

Define Dynamic Functions with Dynamic Arguments (Arity) using Elixir Macros

There are two ways of dynamic function creation with arity using Elixir Macros. For both of the ways, the first thing is creating dynamic args:

defp create_args(_, 0),
  do…

Visualisation of Elixir Supervision Tree Strategies

Elixir has built in four strategies for supervision trees to enable fault tolerant systems. The names of strategies are :one_for_one, :one_for_all, :rest_for_one, :simple_one_for_one. Enjoy the visualisations…

Anatomy of an Elixir Process

Elixir/Erlang concurrency model is based on the actor pattern which runs on top of BEAM(Erlang Virtual Machine) instead of running directly on Operating System. The actor pattern’s actor is an “Elixir Process” in Elixir programming language.