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Issue #31: Bleacher Report, Elm and Playing the Game of Life

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Issue #31

Wait, what day is it?

This issue comes a day late, due to a business trip. To a pizzeria. Last night.

This week in Elixir

How Elixir helped Bleacher Report handle 8x more traffic
This post describes how Bleacher Report has gone from needing 150 servers to just five - thanks to its decision to move from Ruby on Rails monolith to Elixir Phoenix.

Raxx: A pure interface for webservers
Raxx is an complimentary alternative to Plug that focuses on the simplest way to transform HTTP requests to HTTP responses.

Phoenix and Elm, a real use case - Part 1
The first part of a series about creating a very simple SPA with Phoenix and Elm.

Playing the Game of Life with Elixir Processes
Check out how one can use Elixir processes, supervision trees, and the new Registry module to build a back-end for Conway’s Game of Life.

Deploying Phoenix Apps with Docker
Detailed walkthrough of how to put your Phoenix App into a minimal Docker image and run it in a container.

Broken Links - A phoenix app - Part 1
This is a 5 part screencast on how to build Elixir applications using Phoenix (see below for the other parts).

Even more from around the Elixir community

Suggestion: Support Elixir in azure webapps Misc

ElixirFountain w/ Dave Thomas (and new co-host @doomspork!) Podcast

Elixir Pagination with Scrivener Video

Broken Links - A phoenix app - Part 02 Video

Broken Links - A phoenix app - Part 03 Video

Broken Links - A phoenix app - Part 04 Video

Broken Links - A phoenix app - Part 05 Video

Erlang & Elixir Factory SF - 23-24 March - San Francisco Conference

Basic Authentication In Your Phoenix App Blog post

Writing a GenStage producer for AWS SQS Blog post

Elixir/Phoenix on Windows Blog post

Writing Elixir BDD Gherkin Tests with White Bread Blog post

Testing Named Agents Blog post

How to build Elixir packages and Publish to Hex.pm? Blog post

Elixir API Leaseweb Infrastructure Project update

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That's it for this round, have a great day!
@rrrene from ElixirWeekly

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