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How Elixir Lays Out Your Data in Memory

Elixir makes it easy to work with sophisticated data structures. We've come a long way C, where you had to manage every detail of your data's representation in memory. Even so, the way Elixir lays out your data in memory can have real implications on your app's performance. In this article, Sasha Fonseca gives us a tour through Elixir's internal data structures and shows us how they can affect application performance.

By Sasha Fonseca
Mar 1, 2021

Understanding Elixir's Strange Module Names

While brushing up on Elixir for our company hackathon, I discovered that it's way of resolving modules is a little strange. In this post I dive into the strangeness to reveal the underlying mechanisms.

By Starr Horne
Jan 30, 2019

Wrapping Up ElixirConf 2018

In September, we attended ElixirConf in Bellevue, WA. We're still fans of Elixir. Check out some of the highlights from the conference.

By Joshua Wood
Sep 9, 2018

Major Client Update For Elixir

This month we released a new version of our hex package, which includes a major refactor of the internal client logic as well as some new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

By Joshua Wood
Nov 29, 2017

What seasoned developers should know about learning Elixir

Sometimes it pays to learn new tools to solve problems. Here are three ElixirConf 2016 talks you should check out if you're a seasoned developer, but new to Elixir.

By Sophia Le
Oct 25, 2016

How Honeybadger uses Elixir to monitor Heroku

In this post we discuss at length how we use Elixir to monitor application logs for our Heroku customers so that we can report additional types of errors.

By Joshua Wood
May 11, 2016

Introducing Honeybadger for Elixir

Good news Elixir fans! Honeybadger now supports exception monitoring for Elixir. Let's take a look and see how easy it is to get started.

By Richard Bishop
Aug 31, 2015