Map and reduce are two fundamental building blocks of functional programming in languages like Elixir. Both allow you to transform sequences of values and are often combined in a pipeline to perform more sophisticated computation. The map operation transforms a sequence by applying a function to every value and returning

What's the best way to find a value inside of a collection in Elixir?  If you're used to a non-functional language like C, or JavaScript, you might think of using a for-loop.  But Elixir's functional nature means we have to take a different approach: the function Enum.find. The function

My list of indispensable tools & libraries for building with Elixir/Phoenix I’m a huge fan of the Elixir language and the Phoenix web framework in particular. As a functional language with a well-designed actor model for concurrency, Elixir helps avoid entire categories of bugs & other complications that you might