👋 Welcome to the first episode of Overengineered, a blog series I’m starting where we take simple problems and build ridiculously complex and unnecessary solutions — all for the sake of learning and fun. Most of the solutions will be written in Elix...
In this article, we’ll be exploring on building a distributed PubSub in Elixir. First, we’ll be building a local PubSub which will allow a process to broadcast a message to all local subscribers. Then, we’ll see how we can make it work on a distribut...
In this post, we'll be demystifying GenServers. We'll discuss its anatomy and then later roll out our own version of GenServer from the ground up. To fully grasp this article, you must at least know the basics of Elixir/Erlang processes. GenServer in...
Foreword In this post, we'll talk about tracing a function to know its input arguments and return value. For demonstrations of the principles, we'll be using Erlang's dbg module (but of course, using Elixir syntax) then later on we will use a library...
