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#4 Discord bot & stackable queries

#4 Discord bot & stackable queries

Fourth article of a series about Phoenix and Elixir. This one will be focused on creating a Discord bot and making Ecto queries easy.

Haskell series part 10

Haskell series part 10

This is the tenth and last article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Build your Elixir application as a self-contained binary

Build your Elixir application as a self-contained binary

During the last year, at Kalvad, Elixir has become one of our favourite language to work with. However, there are still some downsides to it and today, we will try to solve one of them: the lack of portability. This post follows another post [https://blog.kalvad.com/write-your-own-cron-with-with-elixir/] demonstrating

Haskell series part 9

Haskell series part 9

This is the ninth article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Write your own CRON with Elixir

Write your own CRON with Elixir

Elixir is rising in popularity and I think this is mostly due to the amazing Phoenix Framework. But for once, let's forget about WEB development and write a simple software: a complete CRON. If you are too lazy to read, you can directly check the code on Github [https://github.

Haskell series part 8

Haskell series part 8

This is the eighth article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

IT hiring process

IT hiring process

An IT project's life is complex and split into many crucial steps. One of them is to hire your IT team, may it be one developer or a dozen of people with different roles and expertise. Though roles would require a different hiring process, you can gather a few roles

Haskell series part 7

Haskell series part 7

This is the seventh article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Phoenix Liveview - From --no-html to html & liveview

Phoenix Liveview - From --no-html to html & liveview

If you have generated your Phoenix app thinking you would never have to render HTML but realized later on you need to, you have landed at the right place. This is not something easy to do since it requires carefully adding the right components at the right place. Please note

Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people, we are on the way to a massive pauperization of our jobs!

Sysadmin/DevOps/SRE people, we are on the way to a massive pauperization of our jobs!

If you follow us on LinkedIn, you should have seen that we are hiring a lot of people these days, especially in one department that is not the most active on the hiring part: Kalvad's Infrastructure Team (KIT™). The KIT™ has currently 2 members with me as the manager, and

Haskell series part 6

Haskell series part 6

This is the sixth article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

PM Golden Rule: Open questions!

project management

PM Golden Rule: Open questions!

The best way to start a project or to determine the cause of an issue? Asking questions, a lot, the more the better! But always keep in mind: there are no stupid questions but there are useless ones. Your client, like anybody else, has a limited time of attention for

#3 Pimp my Phoenix

#3 Pimp my Phoenix

Third article of a series about Phoenix and Elixir. This one will be focused on CSS framework implementation and simple custom form validation.

Haskell series part 5

Haskell series part 5

This is the fifth article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Setup your own WebRTC system

Setup your own WebRTC system

If you are looking for a neat introduction to WebRTC and a tutorial on how to setup both the server and client side, look no further. We will go through all of this here. There is a lot to unpack so let's jump straight to the point. Disclaimer: during the

#2 Deploy your Phoenix application with Clever Cloud

#2 Deploy your Phoenix application with Clever Cloud

Second article of a series about Phoenix and Elixir. This one will be focused on automatic deployment with Clever Cloud.

Haskell series part 4

Haskell series part 4

This is the fourth article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

How to handle a massive infrastructure problem

How to handle a massive infrastructure problem

Tonight is one of these nights. It's 04:30 a.m. and I receive an emergency call (less than 3 hours after going to bed) from this customer which is important to us. They are asking for help, as they have a major issue in their data center on some

#1 Handle authentication with Phoenix framework

#1 Handle authentication with Phoenix framework

First article of a series about Phoenix and Elixir. This one will be focused on authentication for both HTML and API usage.

Haskell series part 3

Haskell series part 3

This is the third article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Step up your Elixir game

Step up your Elixir game

As you may have notice from our previous articles, we write more and more Elixir code at Kalvad. It comes very handy when we need to build scalable systems and the amazing Phoenix LiveView framework allows us to create rich and real-time web-applications. Elixir is a pure functionnal programming language

Haskell series part 2

Haskell series part 2

This is the second article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Code readability - How to stop rewriting your application every 4 years

Code readability - How to stop rewriting your application every 4 years

More than half of our clients come to us after a bad experience with an IT outsourcing company. And in this scenario, most of the time, we will simply maintain the existing application while we rewrite a new application from scratch. Because sadly, it's faster for us to write a

Haskell series part 1

Haskell series part 1

This is the first article of a series on the functional language Haskell for beginners

Surviving guide for a tech startup aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 2

Surviving guide for a tech startup aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 2

We highly recommend that you read the first part of this article: Stop building sandcastles aka How to properly bootstrap your startup - Part 1 [https://blog.kalvad.com/bootstrap-your-startup-part-1/] Introduction Your startup has a name, and a good base, now it's time to jump in. You want to start