In a personal project of mine, I regularly fetched data collected by bicycle counting stations scattered around Cologne, Germany, and stored the data in a public GitHub repository. I ran the Python script which was fetching, appending, and uploading the data to GitHub manually for a while, but since I…

My team at Studitemps and I ran into the problem that we had multiple services, which needed to be served from the same URL. We had one service running the Elixir + Phoenix stack that we considered our “main service”. This service should be accessible under an URL like https://example.com…

Here at Studitemps, we have to comply with many rules and regulations that we have to be certain are followed by our software as well. These business requirements have to be poured into production code 1-to-1. Otherwise, we risk losing our students, customers, and at worst, our license. Therefore, we…

Writing code is fun, but nothing tops seeing your code moving things in the real world. That’s why I tested out the Nerves library and used $20 of Raspberry Pi utensils to let software wave a flag for me.

At grandcentrix, we use the Elixir + Phoenix stack to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant and high-availability IoT solutions to our customers. The web frontends, we build for managing these solutions, need to be developed rapidly and adjusted constantly to the needs of our customers. The Phoenix framework is a perfect choice…