Elixir School

Learning Elixir with others - The Elixir Book Club

14 Jul 2021 in General

Enjoy reading your favorite Elixir books with a group of other Alchemists, introducing the Elixir Book Club.

Clean Control Flow in Elixir with Pattern Matching and Immutability

07 Jun 2021 in General

Learn how to use pattern matching instead of guard clauses to implement really clean control flow in Elixir.

Real-Time SVG Charts with Contex and LiveView

06 Oct 2020 in General

Learn how to use the Contex package to render server-side SVG charts that you can update in real-time with LiveView.

Instrumenting Phoenix with Telemetry Part IV: Erlang VM Measurements with `telemetry_poller`

13 May 2020 in General

In this series, we’re instrumenting a Phoenix app and sending metrics to StatsD with the help of Elixir and Erlang’s Telemetry offerings. In Part III we’ll incorporate Erlang’s telemetry_poller library into our Phoenix app so that we can observe and report on Erlang VM Telemetry events.

Instrumenting Phoenix with Telemetry Part III: Phoenix + Ecto Telemetry Events

06 May 2020 in General

In this series, we’re instrumenting a Phoenix app and sending metrics to StatsD with the help of Elixir and Erlang’s Telemetry offerings. In Part III we’ll examine Phoenix and Ecto’s out-of-the-box Telemetry events and use Telemetry.Metrics to observe a wide-range of such events.

Instrumenting Phoenix with Telemetry Part II: Telemetry Metrics + Reporters

29 Apr 2020 in General

In this series, we’re instrumenting a Phoenix app and sending metrics to StatsD with the help of Elixir and Erlang’s Telemetry offerings. In Part II we’ll use Elixir’s Telemetry.Metrics and TelemetryMetricsStatsd libraries to define and send metrics to StatsD for a given Telemetry event.