sotojuan
No amount of exercise or book problems replaces writing an actual library or application, but it can be hard for a newbie to know what to write. This is a thread that helps with that.
I’m looking for two things:
- General Elixir project ideas—things Elixir is good and well-suited for. Doesn’t have to be something new or worth putting in a portfolio.
- What libraries do you think are missing in the ecosystem? Writing something many others may use feels great.
Where Next?
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dgamidov
Thank you for information
andre1sk
A cool project would be Analytics platform as the only
Open Source option with decent traction is piwik.
mkunikow
I would like to have grpc implementation in Elixir
There are also other languages.
PS
I am not so good yet at Elixir/Erlang :).
NobbZ
Your URL seems to be broken, do you mean this one: http://www.grpc.io/?
mkunikow
Yes. fixed url.
OvermindDL1
I’m not sure I see the point in that gprc thing. If you have to use protocol buffers anyway then it is not open to the service it connects to. For mobile I tend to just open a raw socket connection to a server and send data back and forth in bursts after queuing up to save battery for a bit based on need.
A Let’s Encrypt handling library to put in a phoenix project however would be wonderfully nice and actually quite easy to do once a base library is built. I might get around to doing that within the next few months if no one else does.
cjbottaro
Porting this to Elixir/Phoenix would make me so happy:
mkunikow
I think the main point the google use it internally is:
####Building Scalable Microservices using Kubernetes, gRPC, and Containers
OvermindDL1
For interfacing with Google systems sure, I could see that, that is an external defined API. But that library implies nothing of the sort and seems to be something more generic. For my erlang projects I tend to just use term_to_binary, I even use such things for many of my C projects (as I have a habit of integrating them to erlang things eventually anyway, plus it is convenient and fast). I never use REST/JSON for anything that is not strictly webserver oriented for external API’s (and even then, depending on if tcp itself is allowed then I might make a better tcp level API that bypasses the webserver). If I truly need to pack data tightly then I always bit-twiddle it together, it is always possible to shave off some bits some-how and in such places as that then protobufs is a very heavyweight protocol.
mkunikow
Ok how do you connect Java/Go/Net <->Elxiir if you don’t want to use external message queue?
Are there some nice options?