Overview:  Elixir is designed for building scalable and maintainable applications on the Erlang VM. Its lightweight processes ...

Thanks to distributed computing as well as web- and API-enabled services, demand has increased for versatile programming languages. Elixir functional programming offers an option for developers who ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...

Most agent tooling is Python-first. LangChain, AutoGen, CrewAI, and LangGraph all target Python. Given that Python is the second-most-popular programming language, the current ecosystem might work ...

Eva Short was a journalist at Silicon Republic, specialising in the areas of tech, data privacy, business, cybersecurity, AI, automation and future of work, among others.

Erlang: a programming language built in a Swedish telecom lab in the 1980s, ended up running the biggest messaging app ...

Elixir language, now at version 1.0, leverages Erlang VM to produce short, fast, and maintainable code for the Web and infrastructures Developers have another option for functional programming with ...

This book shows how to use advanced functional programming principles, practical domain-driven design techniques, and production-ready Elixir code to build scalable, complex systems from simple, ...

Legacy tech may have carried eCommerce businesses this far, but it wasn’t designed for today’s speed, complexity, and especially customer expectations. What used to be manageable (running a single ...