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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