Phoenix: The request assembly line

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Elixir is a functional language… and Phoenix takes it seriously. The web seems to be a perfect fit for functional languages. You invoke a function passing some arguments and you expect a result, or speaking in web related terms, you make a request to an URL with some parameters and you expect a response. You […]

Programming evolution, next stop: Elixir

Last week I started reading Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas. As I like to read every part from the books I get, I discovered a very interesting present at the beginning: a foreword by José Valim about how the way we write code has evolved to take advantage of the underlying hardware, which also made me remember […]