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Broadway, RabbitMQ, and the Rise of Elixir

In this two part series we’ll be talking about what a message queue is and when you would use one in your application. From there we’ll dive into the Broadway library maintained by Plataformatec and see how it can be leveraged from within an application for data processing. Finally, we’ll create a sample project that makes use of RabbitMQ+Broadway to scrape comments from HackerNews so we can measure the popularity of Elixir over time. Without further ado, let’s dive right into things!

Structs: Maps with checks and default values

As explained in the official docs, Structs are extensions built on top of maps that provide compile-time checks and default values. Maps, as we covered, are one of Elixir's basic data structures.

Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: We can make a Key Value Store out of that

Given that riak_core is an implementation of the Dynamo Architecture which was created to build scalable key value stores, we should follow the same path and build one.

Phoenix LiveView Tutorial: Adding Phoenix PubSub and Pow Authentication to Messenger

After bootstrapping the Messenger app, Michal’s article explains how to use Phoenix PubSub & Pow for live updates and authentication.

Using Ecto outside Phoenix in Elixir projects

The common approach for most people building elixir projects is to use phoenix, a productive, reliable and fast elixir web framework and a very often you start thinking that the dependencies that phoenix comes with are part of phoenix.