One of the biggest selling points of Elixir is the means it gives you to write fault tolerant applications via its concurrency model. Processes can broadcast their failure to dependant processes which can take appropriate action.
You decide how processes should respond to failure based on your use case. There is no single solution.
In our latest blog post, Elixir consultant Thomas Hutchinson gives you an example in which not handling failure led to, you guessed it, more failure.
Read on
Wrote a short blog post on using the Floki HTML parsing library to parse XML documents here. The library that the blog post is called SecLatestRssFeedParser and is also available on Hex. Would love any feedback on the post!
Great! I’ve been using Friendly for a couple of my projects. Its a XML parser that uses Floki and I find it ok, but I’d like a better way. I’ve used Quinn in the past, but I’ve found it pretty lacking 
I’m gonna read it later and come back to you 
I’ve been also using Quinn, until today I found that it crashes when the XML contains comments. Just tried Friendly and it works like a charm for my use case (sitemaps parsing). Thanks!
About a month ago I was in-between jobs - I had two weeks to rest up, recharge and get ready for my new job. So I thought, I should use those two weeks to learn something new…
I just wrote a blog post on my past month of learning Elixir and some Machine Learning.
Great article, a fun read, would like more code examples, like perhaps a post on how you designed your toy robot example and why you chose to do certain things the way you did; it is great to see how someone makes decisions about something.
Wow, this thread has gotten long. Anyway, I was listening to one of my podcasts today (new one by the former hosts of giant robots), and one of them mentioned tying Elixir, running into something when saving multiple records with Ecto, and maybe writing up his findings. Turns out he did:
http://www.scalingsaas.com/posts/leveraging-database-transactions-in-phoenix/
I’ve been using comprehensions in Python a lot and it is my favorite method for many common tasks. I am happy that these are implemented in Elixir too, the implementation is maybe even better featured than Python’s.
