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Alchemist's Edition
#93: Ecto.Multi
In this episode we’ll explore Ecto.Multi in order to compose database transactions in Elixir.

#92: Introduction to Testing
Testing is an essential part of software development. In this episode we’ll get an introduction to testing in Elixir using the ExUnit test framework.

#91: Filtering Parameters in Phoenix
Often you’ll have sensitive information that you don’t want to show up logs. In this episode we’ll see how to configure Phoenix to specify what parameters you want filtered in your logs.

Alchemist's Edition
#90: Nested Forms with Phoenix
In this episode we’ll explore one way to use Phoenix to create a nested form that saves an associated record in our database.

Alchemist's Edition
#89: Phoenix LiveView Part 3
In part 3 of our series we’ll broadcast album changes to all clients using Phoenix.PubSub and Phoenix LiveView.

#88: Phoenix LiveView Part 2
In part 2 we’ll use Phoenix LiveView event bindings to dynamically render a form and save changes to the database. Our form will be validated using a changesets coming from LiveView.

#87: Phoenix LiveView Part 1
In part 1 we get started by installing Phoenix LiveView and setting it up to work with an existing Elixir Phoenix application. Then we’ll update a page to render data using LiveView.

Alchemist's Edition
#86: API Authorization with API Keys Part 2
Now that we have our application generating API keys, we need to validate incoming API requests. In part 2 of this series, we’ll create a plug that validates the API key used.

Alchemist's Edition
#85: API Authorization with API Keys Part 1
There are many different ways to authorize API requests. In part 1 of this series we will setup an Elixir application to generate an API key we can use to authorize API requests with.