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Issue #133

This week in Elixir

[VIDEO] Elixir Components: A 12 minute introduction
Dave put together a 12 minute video showing some aspects of his Component library.

Avoid These OTP Supervision Performance Pitfalls
Jose recently dropped a gem on elixir-lang-core, which was non-obvious and Derek turned it into a blog post!

How To Get Struct Type In Elixir
Three ways on how to quickly get the type of a struct in Elixir.

Serving Plug: Building an Elixir HTTP server from scratch
To understand how HTTP servers work, let's implement a minimal example of one that can run a Plug application.

What’s going on in libcluster? (Elixir library overview)
Joseph illustrated and annotated Paul's famous libcluster library!

Putting Phoenix in an iframe
... might be easier (or harder) than you think.

Even more from around the Elixir community

TIL: Pattern Matching Against Dates in Elixir Misc

PDX |> Elixir |> Group - Monthly Meetup Feb 20th Meetup

ElixirMix - First Nerves Project with Anders Smedegaard Pedersen Podcast

"Mox" library for defining concurrent mocks in Elixir Video

What is Property-Based Testing and how is it better than Example-Based Testing? Video

Building An Erlang Cluster with Vagrant Video

Distributed Phoenix Chat Using Redis PubSub Blog post

Building an Elixir Runtime for AWS Lambda Blog post

Decoding JSON into Elixir Structs Blog post

The @MBTA V3 API: now open source! Blog post

Arcdown: a Plain-text Blogging Format w/ Parser Project update

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