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Alex Koutmos
Personal blog · akoutmos.com/post · on HN as akoutmosprogramming
Alex Koutmos writes My.Thoughts v1, a personal blog at akoutmos.com about programming. Since 2019, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Easy and Robust Rate Limiting in Elixir”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
A blog where I jot down notes and thoughts about various topics ranging from software to cars to life.
Most-linked posts?
- Easy and Robust Rate Limiting in Elixir2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-08
- The Human Side of Elixir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-07-13
- Writing Shell Scripts Using Elixir2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-04-22
What Hacker News says?
https://akoutmos.com/ I started a blog the middle of last year and have written mostly about topics related to Elixir. But have also covered topics like RabbitMQ, Prometheus, Grafana, and PostGIS. I find my own blog very useful as I often reference the associated GitHub tutorial projects to remind myself how I did something :D. Next week's post is about using Loki for structured logging!
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on “Ask HN: What are good solo developer blogs that you enjoy reading?”Submitted The Human Side of Elixir as a story · 186 points
HN discussionThat's the approach that I take as well most of the time. Makes it pretty seamless to then take that container and run it in your cloud provider of choice. I put together a blog post outlining the use of Docker + Mix Releases for a Phoenix app https://akoutmos.com/post/multipart-docker-and-elixir-1.9-re... to help people get started.
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on “An Interview with Jose Valim, Creator of Elixir”Submitted Show HN: Broadway, RabbitMQ, and the Rise of Elixir as a story · 11 points
HN discussionGreat post and thanks for sharing! I've been seeing quite a bit of Render these days. Does anyone have any production experience with it and what are your thoughts? Also for those interested in using Elixir 1.9 releases along with Docker, I wrote a blog post a couple months ago: https://akoutmos.com/post/multipart-docker-and-elixir-1.9-re...
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on “Effortless Elixir Releases and Deployment”Submitted Easy and Robust Rate Limiting in Elixir as a story · 5 points
HN discussionGreat article and thanks for sharing! There are a couple of things that stand out at me as possible architecture smells (hopefully this comes across as positive constructive criticism :)). As someone who has been developing on the BEAM for long time now, it usually sticks out like a sore thumb any time I see Elixir/Erlang paired with Redis. Not that there is anything wrong with Redis, but most of the time you can sa…
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on “How Rust Lets Us Monitor 30k API calls/min”Submitted Easy and Robust Rate Limiting in Elixir as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Shell Scripts Using Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Human Side of Elixir as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted OTP as the Core of Your Application Part 2 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Shell Scripts Using Elixir as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Structured logging in Elixir using Loki as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Broadway, RabbitMQ, and the Rise of Elixir Part 2 as a story · 1 points
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