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How we build forms in LiveView + LiveSvelte

We wrote previously about how much we enjoyed using LiveView with LiveSvelte. Since then, we've open sourced a lot of LiveView/LiveSvelte code. I thought it would be a good time to share the design patterns that have emerged with this stack so far. I'll focus...

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BY Anthony Accomazzo

10 min read

How we build forms in LiveView + LiveSvelte

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Build your own SQS or Kafka with Postgres

BY Anthony Accomazzo

24 min read

Build your own SQS or Kafka with Postgres

We're Sequin, an open source message stream built on Postgres. We think Sequin's cool, but you don't need to adopt the project to get started with streaming in Postgres. In fact, you can turn Postgres into a basic queue/stream pretty easily. Below, we...

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BY Anthony Accomazzo

24 min read

Build your own SQS or Kafka with Postgres

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Postgres sequences can commit out-of-order

BY Anthony Accomazzo

13 min read

Postgres sequences can commit out-of-order

We're Sequin, an open source message stream like Kafka, but built on Postgres. Stable, sequential ordering is a very useful thing to have when building a streaming system. But Postgres' behavior here can be surprising! We go down the rabbit hole below. An under-appreciated fact is that...

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BY Anthony Accomazzo

13 min read

Postgres sequences can commit out-of-order

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BY Anthony Accomazzo

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LiveView is best with Svelte

Phoenix's LiveView is powerful. But it felt like it was missing something. Adding Svelte not only filled a big gap – it introduced us to an entirely new way to develop web apps....

BY Anthony Accomazzo

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All the ways to capture changes in Postgres

Working with data at rest is where Postgres shines. But what about when you need data in motion? What about when you need to trigger a workflow based on changes to a table? Fortunately, Postgres comes with a lot of options to make this happen....

BY Randy Coulman

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GenServer.reply: Don't Call Us, We'll Call You

Let's look at how we can use `:noreply` and `GenServer.reply` to allow a GenServer to continue working even while its `call`ers wait for the result of long-running operations....

BY Randy Coulman

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Between the Ctrl-C's

An outline of the options available in the Elixir BREAK menu....

BY Anthony Accomazzo

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We used Elixir's Observer to hunt down bottlenecks

How we used Elixir's Observer to chase down and fix some puzzling runtime issues....

BY Anthony Accomazzo

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Give me /events, not webhooks

Webhooks come with some challenges. We prefer polling an /events endpoint instead when possible....