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Using Ecto.Multi for Complex Database Transactions Recently, we worked on a client project that required sending over a number of fields to the server during user registration. Some of these fields (email, password, etc.) were part of the user schema and others with other schema. Since these other schema depend on user, we would have to nest conditional transactions in our RegistrationController, which would provide potential for multiple points of failure. Rather than nest these conditional transactions, we wanted to be able to easily sequence our transactions and match on errors and failures. The following is an explanation of how we used Ecto.Multito make this easy.

Elixir, Ruby, don’t fight. Benchmark! Now we know how to talk to Ruby from Elixir. We’ve been described 3 methods so far. Now it’s time for comparisons and benchmarks. If you want to benchmark it yourself you can use the application in this repository. Let’s start!

GenStage vs C# TPL Dataflow José Valim answers a difference between GenStage model of concurrency and approaches that C# takes with Task Parallel Library.

How Discord handles push request bursts of over a million per minute with Elixir’s GenStage Discord has seen tremendous growth. To handle this growth, our engineering team has had the pleasure of figuring out how to scale the backend services. One piece of technology we’ve seen great success with is Elixir’s GenStage.