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Issue #147

This week in Elixir

What's new in Elixir - Apr/19
Read the "State of the Union" on Plataformatec's blog! These are always great. I almost missed the introduction of the ~U sigil!

There is no Magic in Elixir!
When Sven got into Elixir, he was admiring all the awesome shiny magic it had ready for him to build things. Then he discovered that there’s actually less to it than one might think ... in a good way!

You may not Need GenServers and Supervision Trees
This post proposes that we can build great applications without writing GenServers and supervision trees ourselves.

Caveats Storing Large Amounts of Data in Elixir Agents
Pascal ran into an interesting gotcha with Agents that caused massive amounts of resource usage. In this post he describes what happened and how you can avoid it.

Using Libgraph for Graph Data Structures in Elixir
Tony looks at the Elixir libgraph package from Paul Schoenfelder.

Thoughts On Elixir: Pros And Cons Of The Most Popular Tool For High-Load Dev
Interesting perspective on the pros and cons of using Elixir.

Even more from around the Elixir community

Weighted Shuffle in Elixir Misc

ElixirOutlaws - Implicit vs. Explicit Podcast

ElixirMix Podcast 049 - Standard Library Treasures Podcast

Pi Zero Using Nerves Sending USB Keypresses Triggered by GPIO Video

Introduction to Testing Video

How to Write Doctests in Elixir Blog post

Serving Static Assets on a Subpath in Phoenix Blog post

Pattern Match a List of Structs Blog post

Easy Introduction to Recursive Functions Blog post

Ready to Take the First Sip of Elixir? Blog post

Organising Absinthe GraphQL and Ecto Errors Blog post

Event Sourcing With Elixir - Part 4 Blog post

NimbleETS → kv-store For Zero Cost Project update

IntelliJ Elixir 10.5.0 Project update

Uribe - Manipulate URI Structs Project update

external_state v1.0.4 released Project update

KeywordValidator - Get a Handle on Your Options Project update

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