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Deep dive into the Elixir Logger module

Logging is not only putting strings into the console. With formatters, backends, filterers, and translators, you can bend your logs to different shapes—and send them to multiple places. Learn how to leverage the power of the Elixir Logger module.

Elixir background jobs: choosing the right tool for the job

Elixir's rich ecosystem offers multiple solutions for background processing, from the standard library's Task module to database-backed systems like Oban. This comprehensive guide explores the landscape of background job libraries, their tradeoffs, and helps developers understand the evolution of background processing in Elixir.

Out-of-the-box Elixir telemetry with Phoenix

Phoenix gives you a great headstart by leveraging the built-in telemetry of the BEAM, your OS and your Elixir code out of the box - learn how it saves you time and gets you up and running fast.
  • A photo of Gordon Guthrie By Gordon Guthrie
  • Jan 27, 2025

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.
  • A photo of Sasha Fonseca 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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