Weekend long read suggestions 2020/04

Elixir

• Ecto Tips: UUID Boilerplate, Docs, and Composing Changesets

  Excellent write-up touching making UUID first-class citizen as your DB IDs (do you use UUID as id, right?) and also couple great tips on documenting and allowing composition of Ecto changesets.

• Generate API Documentation Effortlessly from your Phoenix/Elixir code - Part1

  First part, of the 3 part series, shows how to annotate your Phoenix code to allow export of swagger specification. It leverages PhoenixSwagger, which currently supports version 2 of the OpenAPI Specification (while v3 is the current one). Cannot wait for the rest.

• Building Hex Diff

  Johanna provides an introduction to newly released Hex Diff. It is fully open-sourced, so you can study the code to learn new tricks.

Infrastructure

• kubelabs

  Set of hands-on exercises / labs to get you started with Kubernetes.

General

• Bring your monorepo down to size with sparse-checkout

  Git version 2.25.0 introduces better support for sparse checkouts. You can use git sparse-checkout to select subdirectories of your interest from the huge repo. This was objectively the only thing I’ve ever missed when switched from subversion many years ago.