Miguel Palhas articles - 11 total
Alchemy Conf 2025
Alchemy Conf 2025 is happening in Braga, Portugal, from March 30th to April 2nd, 2025!
Building State Machines in Elixir with Ecto
Among the many useful patterns in computer science, there is the concept of a Finite-state machine (F...
Best Practices for Background Jobs in Elixir
Erlang & Elixir are ready for asynchronous work right off the bat. Generally speaking, background...
Migrating Production Data in Elixir
When requirements change for your product, there arises a need to change not only the codebase but al...
Typespecs and Behaviours in Elixir
In this post we talk about behaviours. Not ours. But Elixir's
Metaprogramming: From C Preprocessing to Elixir Macros
Metaprogramming has come a long way since its early days. In this edition of Elixir Alcamy, we'll see how it evolved.
Routing in Phoenix Umbrella Apps
Today, we’re diving into Phoenix umbrella applications to build a router that can route requests from multiple subdomains to different apps in our umbrella.
Pouring Protocols in Elixir
An introduction to writing expressive and intuitive Elixir code with Protocols.
Understanding Elixir’s GenStages: Querying the Blockchain
A dive into Elixir's GenStage module and backpressure using an example querying the blockchain
Lists vs Tuples in Elixir
In this episode of Elixir Alchemy, we’ll explore the use of Lists and Tuples in Elixir. We’ll take a look at how each of these data structures is used and see when it’s appropriate to use either one over the other.
Parsing Numbers in Elixir
In this episode of Elixir Alchemy, we'll see how parsing integers and floats from strings work in Elixir and other programming languages.