Allan MacGregor π¨π¦ articles - 20 total
Advanced Dependency Injection in Elixir with Rewire
In our last post, we explored how Dependency Injection (DI) is a powerful design pattern that can...
Using Dependency Injection in Elixir
While controversial in functional programming, dependency injection can be a useful pattern in Elixir...
Powerful Caching in Elixir with Cachex
Developers often initially look to the Elixir language and stack because it's known for being able to...
How To Use Zig for Elixir NIFs
Elixir excels at building scalable and maintainable applications. However, sometimes Elixir is not...
How To Instrument Your Elixir Application with AppSignal
Instrumentation is an essential part of monitoring and operating an application, especially for apps...
Benchmark Your Elixir App's Performance with Benchee
At some point, every software engineer will find themselves in a situation where they need to...
Using Abbreviations instead of Aliases
I recently came across one of Fish shell best and likely most underrated features, abbreviations ; a...
Exploring Headless Commerce
One of the interesting side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the unprecedented acceleration and ad...
Circuit Breaker Pattern in Elixir
Circuit breaker is used to detect failures and encapsulates the logic of preventing a failure from...
5 Reasons to Love Elixir
Whenever I have a new side project idea, the need to build a quick prototype, or even an opportunity...
The Thing Most Developers Get Wrong On Interviews
As an interviewee your main priority is to help the interviewer visualize what kind of employee you'...
Ecommerce Platform Prototype with Elixir and Phoenix
CrimsonCommerce is an experimental ecommerce platform build using a functional programming approach...
Why isn't Functional Programming the Norm?
I'm curious to hear opinions from the community why is functional programming not more widely used, w...
WTF is Flow-Based Programming?
In computer programming, flow-based programming (FBP) is a programming paradigm that defines applica...
I am Software Engineer and former Director of Engineering, Ask Me Anything!
Hi, I'm Allan. I been working as a professional software engineer for 10+ years, I have worked as a...
Vim Is The Perfect IDE
This article was originally published in HackerNoon Over the years I've jumped back and forth...
You Should Learn Functional Programming in 2018
Functional programming is making a big comeback and here is why developers should make their mission to prepare
Exploring Elixir Recursion and Lists
Recently, Iβve been playing with a new language called Elixir. Elixir is a functional programming...
Manfred Macx and the Problem of Information Overload
Iβve always been fascinated with the technology concepts presented on Charles Stross book...
Git Tips and Tricks
Recently Iβve been collecting a large collection of git shortcuts, tips and tricks. The following...