Learn programming in Elixir

Pattern matching as filter

Today I learned that pattern matching is also can be addressed in Elixir.

How could I’ve missed it! Of course everything which is not in Kernel.Special forms is either macros or function.

Disassemble Elixir code

And check if Erlang dead code elimination works

Optimizing work with nested maps in Elixir

Summary: Maps are extremely efficient in Erlang and create/update/access performance scales very good up to 100k keys. Access time per every element stored increases just three times from 2 objects in a map to 100k objects in the map. Map.update…

Comfortable learning curve for Elixir — part 3

Processes and message passing

Streaming 19 Sep, 20:00 CEST (GMT+2)

I’ve tried last week streaming Elixir coding session on twitch and that was fun :)

Come join another one!

I’m going to stream tomorrow at 20:00 CEST (GMT+2) — we’ll finish coding challenge of curbside.com without…

Supervisors and workers in 10 minutes

Comfortable learning curve for Elixir — part 5

Speed up data access in Elixir

Working with data structures was straightforward and predictable in a days of Erlang. Most of the time…

Message order and delivery guarantees in Elixir/Erlang

TL;DR Some messages may be not delivered, but message order is always preserved relative to two processes. Seriously, read full article, this cannot…