programminglanguage:erlang

Installing #elixir and Phoenix
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Having a little bit of free time tonight, I thought I’d look into Elixir and Phoenix. Elixir is a relatively new language that runs on the Erlang VM and Phoenix is the web framework for it.There has been a lot of talk on Hacker News about Elixir in the past couple of years. WhatsApp famously runs Erlang in its backend and it was a key factor for it scaling so well. This was the main reason I’ve been interested in it for a while.A while back, I saw the Learn With Me: Elixir blog series by Kevin Peter and learned more about Elixir. I recommend the series — I’ve only gone through the first few chapters and it already gives me a very good background on Elixir.So I thought I’d install Elixir to try things out a bit.Elixir Installation — with version managersSo my goal is to install Elixir (and Erlang (...)

#elixir-and-phoenix #installing-elixir #installing-phoenix #phoenix-framework

Image Thumbnail in #elixir using #imagemagick
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When you are dealing with images, you cannot live without thumbnails. For large images, thumbnails provide us a way to peek through the image without worrying about the actual image size and waiting for it to finish downloading so that we can see what that image is all about.Our whole attachments feature was ready and we had found the only available option in Elixir./Phoenix world — [Thumbnex](▻https://github.com/talklittle/thumbnex), for generating thumbnails. Everything was working fine except for generating thumbnails. We were getting the following error with Thumbnex:``` (ErlangError) Erlang error: :enoent (elixir) lib/system.ex:622: System.cmd(“ffprobe”, [“-show_format”, “/var/folders/k2/37ht7xpx4g1fswv0cn003gp80000gp/T/plug-1531/multipart-739416–202247–1”], [stderr_to_stdout: true]) (...)

#using-imagemagick #image-thumbnail-in-elixir #image-thumbnail

Erlang Programming Language
▻http://www.erlang.org

#Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer telephony and instant messaging. Erlang’s runtime system has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance.

#OTP #elixir

Instance spawn in 0.6 second… Truly elastic cloud with Zerg, OS-less Erlang on Xen: ▻http://zerg.erlangonxen.org - sometimes a full OS is overkill.