Managing Distributed State with GenServers in Phoenix and Elixir(appsignal.com) Phoenix and Elixir are designed at their core to build real-time, fault-tolerant applications.
With its elegant syntax and the robustness of the Erlang VM, Elixir is an ideal candidate for tackling the challenges of distributed state management.
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Ask HN: Why Isn't Elixir More Popular?(ycombinator.com) It seems that when implemented correctly, running full-stack Elixir can greatly simplify complicated distributed systems. In-memory storage can replace a cache, and the architecture itself can replace a message queue. Horizontal or even vertical scaling can replace complicated scaling mechanisms.
Serialization Is the Secret(zachdaniel.dev) One of the major elements that sets Elixir apart from most other programming languages is immutability. But what does that actually mean? What does it do for us?
AI GPU Clusters, from Your Laptop, with Livebook(fly.io) Livebook, FLAME, and the Nx stack: three Elixir components that are easy to describe, more powerful than they look, and intricately threaded into the Elixir ecosystem. A few weeks ago, Chris McCord (👋) and Chris Grainger showed them off at ElixirConf 2024. We thought the talk was worth a recap.
Building a WoW (World of Warcraft) Server in Elixir(pikdum.dev) Thistle Tea is my new World of Warcraft private server project. You can log in, create a character, run around, and cast spells to kill mobs, with everything synchronized between players as expected for an MMO.