Elixir Alchemy Newsletter
A true alchemist is never done exploring. And neither are we.
In our Elixir Alchemy email series, we share tips & tricks about performance optimization, monitoring, and observability for your Elixir apps.
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We’ve written 124 high-quality Elixir articles to date.
- How to Track Errors in Oban for Elixir Using AppSignal
- Managing Distributed State with GenServers in Phoenix and Elixir
- Find and Fix N+1 Queries Using AppSignal for a Phoenix App in Elixir
- A Complete Guide to Phoenix for Elixir Monitoring with AppSignal
- Scaling Your Phoenix App in Elixir with FLAME
- LiveState for Elixir: An Overview and How to Build Embeddable Web Apps
- Custom Instrumentation for a Phoenix App in Elixir with AppSignal
- Enhancing Your Elixir Codebase with Gleam
- Track Errors in Phoenix for Elixir with AppSignal
- Leverage Concurrency Efficiently When Managing Multiple Tasks in Elixir
- Advanced Dependency Injection in Elixir with Rewire
- Using Dependency Injection in Elixir
- Deep Diving Into the Erlang Scheduler
- How to Use Flume in your Elixir Application
- Direct File Uploads to Amazon S3 with Phoenix LiveView
- Powerful Caching in Elixir with Cachex
- Creating Custom Exceptions in Elixir
- How to Build a Memory-efficient Elixir App with Streams
- Build A Simple Tracing System in Elixir
- AppSignal’s Top 5 Elixir Posts in 2023
- What's New in Elixir 1.16
- Advanced Multi-tenancy for Elixir Applications Using Ecto
- Setting Up a Multi-tenant Phoenix App for Elixir
- Validating Data in Elixir: Using Ecto and NimbleOptions
- How To Use Zig for Elixir NIFs
- Validate Data in a Phoenix Application for Elixir
- How To Reduce Reductions in Elixir
- An Introduction to Exceptions in Elixir
- Phoenix 1.7 for Elixir: Edit a Form in a Modal
- Writing a Custom Credo Check in Elixir
- A Deep Dive into Subscriptions with Absinthe
- Add a Form to a Modal in Phoenix 1.7
- Observe Your Phoenix App with Structured Logging
- A Deep Dive into Mutations with Absinthe
- Create and Open a Modal in Phoenix 1.7
- Absinthe for Large Elixir Applications
- Tackling Performance Issues in Ecto Applications
- An Introduction to Absinthe
- Test Data Libraries for Elixir
- An Introduction to Mocking Tools for Elixir
- Debugging Phoenix LiveView with open_browser/2
- Generating Data Functions in Your Elixir App
- An Introduction to Test Factories and Fixtures for Elixir
- Under the Hood of Ecto
- How To Instrument Your Elixir Application with AppSignal
- Debugging and Tracing in Erlang
- AppSignal’s Top 5 Elixir posts in 2022
- How to Cache Locally in Elixir with Nebulex
- Debugging in Elixir and Erlang: An Introduction
- Parser Combinators in Elixir: A Deeper Dive
- Sanitize Strings in Elixir with Pattern Matching and Recursion
- Parser Combinators in Elixir: Taming Semi-Structured Text
- Phoenix LiveView 0.18: New Special HTML Attributes
- Faster XML Parsing with Elixir
- Fix Process Bottlenecks with Elixir 1.14's Partition Supervisor
- Elixir 1.14: Better Debugging with dbg/2 and More
- Benchmark Your Elixir App's Performance with Benchee
- Predictable Code in Elixir: Expressions as Reducers and Macros
- Write a Standalone CLI Application in Elixir
- How to Write a Functor in Elixir
- Writing Predictable Elixir Code with Reducers
- LiveView Assigns: Three Common Pitfalls and Their Solutions
- A Guide to Phoenix LiveView Assigns
- Algebraic Data Types in Elixir
- Livebook for Elixir: Just What the Docs Ordered
- A Guide to Event-Driven Architecture in Elixir
- Using Profiling in Elixir to Improve Performance
- Phoenix LiveView Under The Hood: The Form Function Component
- A Guide to Secure Elixir Package Updates
- Functional Programming in Elixir with Witchcraft
- Securing Your Phoenix LiveView Apps
- Build Interactive Phoenix LiveView UIs with Components
- Pitfalls of Metaprogramming in Elixir
- Authorization and Policy Scopes for Phoenix Apps
- How to Use Macros in Elixir
- How to Do Live Uploads in Phoenix LiveView
- Under the Hood of Macros in Elixir
- Real-Time Form Validation with Phoenix LiveView
- Application Code Upgrades in Elixir
- An Introduction to Metaprogramming in Elixir
- LiveView Integration Tests in Elixir
- Using Supervisors to Organize Your Elixir Application
- An Introduction to Testing LiveView in Elixir
- A Guide to Hot Code Reloading in Elixir
- Building Aggregates in Elixir and PostgreSQL
- How to Test WebSocket Clients in Elixir with a Mock Server
- How Absinthe Uses Compilation Callbacks for Schema Validation in Elixir
- Top 5 Elixir Blog Posts in 2020 from AppSignal
- Understanding Associations in Elixir's Ecto
- Capabilities of Elixir's Logger
- Monitoring Any System with StatsD and AppSignal's Standalone Agent
- Testing the Tricky Parts of an Absinthe Application
- The State of Elixir HTTP Clients
- Building State Machines in Elixir with Ecto
- Best Practices for Background Jobs in Elixir
- Using Mnesia in an Elixir Application
- Configuring your Elixir Application at Runtime with Vapor
- How to Use gRPC in Elixir
- Building Compile-time Tools With Elixir's Compiler Tracing Features
- Migrating Production Data in Elixir
- Monitoring the Erlang VM With AppSignal's Magic Dashboard
- How to Get Your Elixir Application Ready for CI/CD
- Top 10 AppSignal Blog Posts in 2019
- How to Use Broadway in Your Elixir Application
- Caching with Elixir and ETS
- Typespecs and Behaviours in Elixir
- Flags, Seeds and Idempotency: Database Tooling with Elixir
- Multiplayer Go with Elixir's Registry, PubSub and dynamic supervisors
- Metaprogramming: From C Preprocessing to Elixir Macros
- Building the Go Game in Elixir - Time Travel and the Ko Rule
- Building and Playing the Go Game with Phoenix LiveView
- Doing Background Work Using a Native Elixir Approach
- Routing in Phoenix Umbrella Apps
- Iteration, Recursion, and Tail-call Optimization in Elixir
- Pouring Protocols in Elixir
- Serving Plug - Building an Elixir HTTP server from scratch
- Understanding Elixir’s GenStages - Querying the Blockchain
- Hot Code Reloading in Elixir
- How OTP Applications are structured
- Lists vs Tuples in Elixirs
- Parsing Numbers in Elixir
- Deconstructing Elixir's GenServers
- Supervisors: Building fault-tolerant Elixir applications
- Demystifying processes in Elixir
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