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Elixir

5 top-tier companies that use Elixir

Elixir is a pretty capable language - and it consistently ranks near the top of most loved and wanted languages rankings. It has a large following and some very persuasive preachers as well. But that would not be enough to make me like it – what I need as real proof of its strengths is real businesses that strive with Elixir.

That’s what this list is all about – a bunch of stories from top companies that chose Elixir and never looked back. Let us show you how its power and versatility shows in practice.

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SEO

Async vs Defer - Which Script Tag Attribute is More Efficient when Loading JavaScript?

JavaScript is the most popular language in the world. Why? Because it's the only well-adopted language supported by Web Browsers that brings dynamics to the frontend experience.

Because of that, almost any web application requires developers to write at least a bit of JavaScript code. While it's not a problem (unless you hate this language 😉), some of us tend to create very complex, frontend-heavy applications that load.. well, definitely not fast.

In this article, you'll get familiar with async and defer - two script tag attributes that will speed up your website's rendering.

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Elixir

Alias, import, require and use in Elixir - complete guide with use cases.

In most programming languages we often deal with instructions responsible for handling dependencies. Elixir is no different.

In Elixir, dependency is nothing more than compiled module which for some reason you want to use in another module. There are a couple of instructions that we use in Elixir to either make it easier or possible to interact with modules.

In this blog post I'll explain and present use case examples of four of them:

alias,
require,
import,
use.