Curiosum Blog

Elixir is not magic - despite being easy to write in and learn, you need a strong foundation. In this short article, I will give you my personal list of things that are necessary (or at least very much a “should-have”) for Junior Elixir developers.

As your app grows so does its integrations base. At some point, you may need to consume API from third-party services. Today you'll learn how to test them properly with the exvcr library.

Elixir is a pretty capable language - and it consistently ranks near the top of most loved and wanted languages rankings.

Explore the session on developing IoT apps using Nerves and Elixir. He walked the audience through a full Nerves application, showcasing its capabilities and providing insights into building robust, fault-tolerant, and maintainable embedded systems.

At Elixir Meetup #1, Michał Buszkiewicz shared his extensive knowledge on debugging Elixir applications.

At Elixir Meetup #1, Krzysztof Kempiński discussed the reliability of Elixir and Erlang, emphasizing their robustness and suitability for building dependable applications.

There's hardly any more misunderstood element of Elixir than its metaprogramming power. The way to understand it is actually not to try too hard to wrap your head around it.

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

Today we're going to look at how Ecto, Elixir's first-choice database access library, handles relational (SQL) database transactions.