This week in Elixir

Learning Elixir's GenStage

The Learning Elixir series is a gem in its own right and one of my personal favorites, helping people approach all things Elixir and OTP from the eyes of the author.

AppSignal starts Public Beta this week

While I haven't tried their product (yet), I am always excited to see established services rolling out Elixir support.

Unicode and UTF-8 Explained

This series of blog posts explains what Unicode is, how UTF-8 encoding works and how Elixir's string implementation helps it do things correctly that many languages do wrong.

Dynamic forms with Phoenix

This blog post by José shows how to build forms in Phoenix that use our schema information to dynamically show the proper input fields with validations, errors and so on.

Stateful vs. Stateless Web Applications

Interesting read. And comparing Phoenix to Ruby on Rails doesn't get old, does it?

Monitoring Elixir Apps with Prometheus/Grafana

Sebastian provides a step-by-step guide to monitoring your Elixir apps using established tools.

Announcing Constable

Thoughtbot released Constable, an open source Phoenix application for handling company discussions and announcements.