This Week in Elixir and Erlang #10
A few links and news shared by the Elixir and Erlang community. No more, no less. Instead of a newsletter.
Another week, another set of wonderful news and articles from the world of Elixir and Erlang!
Announcements
🎉Pre-releasing a mini-ebook today!
— Alchemist Camp (@AlchemistCamp) November 23, 2020
It teaches Elixir through games of gradually increasing complexity. It's beginner-friendly and it's discounted to just $5 for the next 24 hours.https://t.co/7EsCifNtBT
If you've ever wanted to try out Elixir, now is the time! Please share!
Elixir Community Voices
Here are some benchmarks on this new thing for Elixir we are working on... and it can actually go faster than that! pic.twitter.com/eWRpfldU6J
— José Valim (@josevalim) November 24, 2020
Imagine if Erlang, Elixir, and Rust had a baby. If you like what you imagined, give this episode a listen! https://t.co/WulfX6nnlE
— David Bernheisel (@bernheisel) November 24, 2020
Podcasts
#023 Gleam and Static Types with Louis Pilfold
Articles
Warnings as errors and tests - Dashbit Blog
Let’s discuss the --warnings-as-errors option, how we can use it during compilation and tests, and finally our recommendations for using it in CI.
A Short Profiling Story
Using profiling tools to understand and debug memory usage
Devon C. Estes
Devon C. Estes
Unnest for runtime sorted results | Benjamin Milde
On Elixir Metaprogramming
Metaprogramming is a scary word: it sounds like voodoo for programmers, and in some manners it is. It is used by most popular Elixir libraries and as I leveled up as an Elixir programmer, I needed to understand how it worked under the hood.
Christian Blavier
How Elixir and Nerves Are Changing the Embedded Development Landscape
Learn more about the Nerves Platform, which makes IoT development as easy as developing for the web, and its cloud service NervesHub for managing OTA updates.
17 March 2020
Tips for Finch, Telemetry, and Phoenix Live Dashboard
A collection of tips to customize the interaction between Finch, Telemetry, and Phoenix Live Dashboard
Remote code execution in Elixir-based Paginator - Alphabot Security
A look at CVE-2020-15150, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Elixir-based Paginator.
Writing Rust the Elixir way
It’s not a secret that I’m a big fan of Elixir, so when I started doing Rust development I tried to b...
Bernard Kolobara