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Kamil Lelonek
Personal blog · blog.lelonek.meprogrammingcareer
Kamil Lelonek's personal blog at blog.lelonek.me covers programming and career. Since 2015, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Kamil Lelonek's blog for a post on using PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY with Elixir listeners to run callback-style actions when data changes. Comments only cite it as a resource.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I think PHP is still good. It definitely seems lower in priority for most companies remote or local than it used to be by far but it isn't going away or anything. Niche languages depend on a lot of factors. And debatable on what is still niche but I think Elixir, Scala, Go and Rust are a group to look at. My personal choice has been Elixir and that has worked out great. Lots of remote jobs too with it. A fellow made…
Comment linking /how-to-find-an-elixir-job-db4c836890
on “Ask HN: Where can I find remote or quality oriented freelancing work?”Submitted I have no idea what I’m doing but I’m a programmer as a story · 82 points
HN discussionUsing postgrest and combining postgres triggers with Elixir listeners, you can then do callback like actions on the data: https://blog.lelonek.me/listen-and-notify-postgresql-command... Or do similar using Hasura's Event system but with webhooks. https://3factor.app
Comment linking /listen-and-notify-postgresql-commands-in-elixir-187c49597851
on “Ask HN: Self-taught webdev with lots of free time. What should I learn?”Submitted Can We Have Form Objects in Elixir? as a story · 48 points
HN discussionThe tools written in elixir are this Logging server, our Realtime server, and our the Postgres Pooler which we just launched on HN this weekend [0] The decision is more about the BEAM [1], the virtual machine which powers Elixir/Erlang. It was specifically designed for high-availability systems and so great for concurrency because it's efficient at managing large numbers of processes and threads. In the context of t…
Comment linking /elixir-on-erlang-vm-demystified-320557d09e1f
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