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February 19 2019 Elixir, Ecto

Adding Ecto 3 to an existing umbrella project

On a recent project I found that, on higher loaded servers, the application was too write heavy for SQLite. A decision was made with the client and Postgres was selected. During this move I decided that the best route would be to use Ecto rather than decoding the result sets from the Postgres driver.

February 10 2019 Elixir

IoT Devices disconnecting from the server

On a project that has a number of IoT devices attached to it. I got reports of devices going offline. This was odd, the code deployed had been working for a over a year without issue.

October 05 2018 Elixir

Binaries are not always strings

The door access project moves a lot a binaries data about. A short while ago after

October 03 2018 Elixir, Ranch

Shutting down Ranch in a controlled way

Whilst working on a project using Ranch as the underlying transport layer,

March 20 2018 Elixir

Lynx - A simple Plug based web framework

I wanted a very simple website but I also wanted to explore Plug. The result is what you are reading now. Easily maintained. No database, no login, no forgotten