thoughtbot

- All Topics
- Design
- Development
- Product
- More topics
Building and testing a Phoenix JSON API

Learn how to build a blazing fast Phoenix API. Updated for Phoenix 1.2.
Paul Smith
August 2, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Phoenix
HyperLogLogs in Redis

Learn what a HyperLogLog is and how you can use it to count billions of unique things.
Calle Erlandsson
August 1, 2016
- Redis
- Web
- Ruby
Advanced Postgres Performance Tips

What do you do when indexes aren’t enough?
Caleb Hearth
July 29, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Literate Vim

Vim commands are terse and arcane, but very expressive. See a complex command broken down by clause.
Caleb Hearth
July 28, 2016
- Vim
Reading a Postgres EXPLAIN ANALYZE Query Plan

Take a guided tour through a query plan for a “simple” SQL query.
Caleb Hearth
July 26, 2016
- PostgreSQL
- Databases
- SQL
- Performance
Fundamentals of Test-Driven Development, Now on Upcase

Learn how to use Test-Driven Development to write better software in our newest Upcase trail.
Chris Toomey and Geoff Harcourt
July 19, 2016
- News
- Testing
- Ruby
- Upcase
Make Phoenix Even Faster with a GenServer-backed Key Value Store

Skip adding another dependency and leverage GenServer and Erlang Term Storage to build an in-memory key-value store for even faster Phoenix applications.
Josh Clayton
July 13, 2016
- Web
- Elixir
- Phoenix
How We Replaced React with Phoenix

How we replaced React with server-side rendering without anyone noticing.
Blake Williams
July 12, 2016
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- JavaScript
- Web
ExMachina Hits 1.0 - More Flexible, More Useful and Support for Ecto 2.0

ExMachina allows developers to create and manipulate test data in Elixir.
Paul Smith
July 11, 2016
- Elixir
- Testing
- Web
Deploying Elixir to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker

Deploy a Phoenix project that uses WebSockets to AWS Elastic Beanstalk with Docker.
James Robert Somers
July 8, 2016
- Docker
- Elastic Beanstalk
- Elixir
- Phoenix
- Deployment
- AWS
- Websockets
Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot

Your email address

Looking for even more ways to stay connected?

Check out our feeds

Sign up to receive a weekly recap from thoughtbot