How OTP Applications are structured
By Jeff Kreeftmeijer on
OTP uses applications to package code into units or components. In this edition of Elixir Alchemy, we'll learn about how Elixir applications are used, configured and compiled.
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Our team handles over 30 billion requests each month. We run a stack with Ruby, MongoDB, Rust, Go, React and are improving this all the time.
By Jeff Kreeftmeijer on
OTP uses applications to package code into units or components. In this edition of Elixir Alchemy, we'll learn about how Elixir applications are used, configured and compiled.
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In this article, we'll refresh your knowledge by looking at the differences between #nil?, #empty?, #blank? and #present? in Ruby and Rails.
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In Ruby Magic we love to dive into the magic behind the things we use every day to understand how they work. In this edition, we’ll explore the differences between blocks, procs and lambdas.
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In this episode of AppSignal Academy, we'll dive into real time updating and toy around with building a minimal WebSocket server to look at how it works under the hood.
read moreBy Miguel Palhas on
In this episode of Elixir Alchemy, we’ll explore the use of Lists and Tuples in Elixir. We’ll take a look at how each of these data structures is used and see when it’s appropriate to use either one over the other.
read moreBy Tom de Bruijn on
In this article, we'll take a look at how Rails collection caching works and how we can use it to speed up large collection rendering.
read moreBy Benedikt Deicke on
In this edition of Ruby Magic, we'll look at how Ruby creates and initializes objects and how we can modify the default behavior.
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Random numbers are useful for a variety of purposes such as in gaming, encryption and building simulations. In this article, we'll look at the various ways you can generate random numbers in Ruby.
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The best of AppSignal Academy: 5 of our favorite Ruby articles
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In this episode of Elixir Alchemy, we'll see how parsing integers and floats from strings work in Elixir and other programming languages.
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Using JavaScript sprinkes to load dynamic or user-specific content after the rest of the page is directly served from the cache.
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Streaming files line by line is often preferred over “slurping” the whole content at once. In this edition of Ruby Magic, we'll learn how streaming files and other I/O streams works in Ruby.
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