Elixir - No Kill Switch

a year agoin Elixir, Programming, functional programming

Wannabe Elixir Engineer - podsumowanie eksperymentu

99% of articles on this blog are in English, but this one is explicitly aimed at local, Polish community, so to lower the entry threshold for readers, I've decided to make an exception and use Polish. Sorry for inconvenience. To…

2 years agoin Elixir, meet-up, community, Warsaw

Mixing warsaw.ex

This blog post is all about: what's warsaw.ex and what kind of gap it will try to fill, why you (and any other software engineer) should care (about Elixir, even if you're specialised in a different tech already), who…

2 years agoin Elixir, job offer

Zatem chcesz pracować z Elixirem?

TL;DR Marzy Ci się praca z Elixirem, ale czujesz że masz za mało wiedzy/doświadczenia lub nie znasz odpowiedniej firmy? Chyba możemy sobie wzajemnie pomóc ... Cześć, jestem Sebastian i mam propozycję, która może Cię zainteresować. Tak się składa, że…

3 years agoin community, conferences, Elixir

Why Elixir Conf EU rocked, while many other confs don't (anymore)

TL;DR HR departments of IT companies have discovered software craftsmanship conferences & realized their recruitment potential - this has turn the money tap on, but the pressure to make the conferences more approachable for any developer (that's what recruiters…

4 years agoin Elixir, Architecture, technical debt

Wiping the tech debt out with immutable code

Disclaimer: the idea of immutable code ain't mine - I've read/heard about it somewhere (can't recall precisely ;/) some time ago & it sticked with me. Code maintenance is already a huge problem & it won't get any better by…

4 years agoin reactive programming, architecture, Elixir

What's backpressure & what you're missing by not knowing

In 2016 pretty much every commercial software system built with modern tech is a distributed system. Yes, we all build distributed systems these days. Obviously, the term "distributed" is very spacious - I'm not saying we're all creating…