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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
My First Product Design Sprint

Product Design Sprints are great for validating ideas and concepts, and developers can both learn and add a lot to them.
Calle Erlandsson
July 7, 2016
Release 1.0 of our “Maintaining Open Source Projects” Book

Learn software development techniques from open source software maintainers.
Tute Costa
July 6, 2016
- Books
- Open Source
- News
Refactoring to a Monad Transformer Stack

Leverage monad transformer stacks to consolidate common patterns in Haskell CLIs.
Josh Clayton
July 5, 2016
- Haskell
- CLI
thoughtbot Ruby Open Source is Ready for Rails 5

Upgrade all the things!
Tute Costa
July 1, 2016
- Open Source
- Ruby
- Rails
- Paperclip
- Clearance
- Suspenders
- Scenic
- Web
Tips For Conducting User Research Interviews

When you know it’s time to go out talk to some users, but you don’t know how.
Jaclyn Perrone
July 1, 2016
What's New in WWDC16: Designer Edition

Apple’s 27th WWDC conference brought with it major updates to the platforms and a handful of new tools and APIs. There is more than 80 hours worth of information to comb through as a designer, and we are here to help.
Reda Lemeden
June 23, 2016
- Design
- iOS
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