erlang

on elixir, erlang, exunit, genservers, testing, rabbitmq

Testing GenServers with Erlang Trace

Thanks to lots of Googling and some help from a friend, I learned you can test that a GenServer received a message with the help of Erlang tracing.…

on elixir, erlang, encryption, crypto

Building an Elixir Encryption Engine with Erlang's Crypto Module

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…