"Concurrent" and "fault tolerant" are Elixir buzzwords that I heard again and again without actually seeing these features in action. Even after writing a fair amount of Elixir code, I still hadn't had an opportunity to meaningfully use them. So how can we leverage native Elixir…
This post was originally published on the Elixir School blog. Elixir School is an open source Elixir curriculum and we're looking for contributors! You can write a short TIL blog post, a longer blog post, add a lesson, help with translation and more. Check out our open issues or add…
Demystify encryption by taking a medium dive and building your very own encryption engine in Elixir. In this post, we'll build a light-weight Elixir library that leverages Erlang's :crypto to encrypt/decrypt sensitive data, and learn a little more about encryption along the way. Overview Our library will be able…
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This is a guest post by Alex Griffith, originally published on the Flatiron Labs blog. Alex is an engineer at The Flatiron School. He is also an incredibly talented teacher who happens to have a hilarious twitter handle Integrating Learn.co with a Partner Organization As part of a project…