Vince Urag

@vinceurag

I tinker with Elixir.

Manila, PhilippinesJoined November 2023

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I'm a software engineer with 7+ years experience in backend engineering. My main focus is on distributed systems, concurrency, parallelism, etc. I usually dabble with Elixir/Erlang.

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I am available for mentoring, coffee, and consulting.

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Overengineered #001: Hello World

👋 Welcome to the first episode of Overengineered, a blog series I’m starting where we take simple problems and build ridiculously complex and unnecessary solutions — all for the sake of learning and fun. Most of the solutions will be written in Elix...

Mar 17, 20259 min read

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Distributed PubSub in Elixir

In this article, we’ll be exploring on building a distributed PubSub in Elixir. First, we’ll be building a local PubSub which will allow a process to broadcast a message to all local subscribers. Then, we’ll see how we can make it work on a distribut...

Sep 27, 202410 min read

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Understanding GenServers

In this post, we'll be demystifying GenServers. We'll discuss its anatomy and then later roll out our own version of GenServer from the ground up. To fully grasp this article, you must at least know the basics of Elixir/Erlang processes. GenServer in...

Dec 3, 202310 min read

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Tracing Function Calls in Elixir

Foreword In this post, we'll talk about tracing a function to know its input arguments and return value. For demonstrations of the principles, we'll be using Erlang's dbg module (but of course, using Elixir syntax) then later on we will use a library...

Nov 28, 20236 min read

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Glimpse of Docker in 2 Minutes

Docker is a containerization platform that has been around since 2013. It tries to eliminate the it-works-on-my-machine problem. In this mini-article, we'll discuss what are containers and images in a very simple way. We'll also try to run a PHP file...

Aug 8, 20183 min read

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Distributed PubSub in Elixir

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Vince Urag's blogs

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Overengineered #001: Hello World

Distributed PubSub in Elixir

Understanding GenServers

Tracing Function Calls in Elixir

Glimpse of Docker in 2 Minutes