Elixir Wizards
Elixir Wizards
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Elixir Wizards is an interview-format podcast, focused on engineers who use the Elixir programming language. Initially launched in early 2019, each season focuses on a specific topic or topics, with each interview focusing on the guest's experience and opinions on the topic. Elixir Wizards is hosted by Eric Oestrich and Sundi Myint of SmartLogic, a dev shop that’s been building custom software since 2005 and running Elixir applications in production since 2015. Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smartlogic.io/phoenix-and-elixir?utm_source=podcast)

Frank Hunleth and Joe Martin on the Particulars of Nerves

December 08, 2022 45:13 86.83 MB Downloads: 0

Today on Elixir Wizards, we speak with two great minds in the Elixir community: Frank Hunleth from SmartRent and Joe Martin from Company Six. Join us to parse the particulars of Nerves, from production and terminology, to stacks, customization, and how they function.

*Please remember to take our LISTENER SURVEY so we can come back bigger and better for Season 10 – Coming in early 2023!! *

Key Points From This Episode:

  • How both Frank & Joe became interested in Elixir
  • We learn what nerves is currently being used for in production
  • How Nerves is being utilized within farming and energy companies
  • What the elevator pitch for nerves would be
  • How well nerves play with pre-existing embedded projects in other languages, especially when having to coexist within a system
  • How much can a user customize nerves
  • What is Buildroot and the functions that it serves
  • Frank explains how there are two worlds: elixir world & nerves systems
  • Joe and Frank let us know what they are most excited about in the near future of nerves and Elixir

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

LISTENER SURVEY – https://smr.tl/survey2022
Nerves Livebook – https://github.com/livebook-dev/nerves_livebook
Frank Hunleth on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/fhunleth/
Frank Hunleth on Twitter — https://twitter.com/fhunleth
Frank Hunleth on GitHub -- https://github.com/fhunleth
Joe Martin on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-martin-265861b2/
Joe Martin on GitHub – http://github.com/josephmartin09
SmartRent -- https://smartrent.com/
Company Six – https://www.co6.com/
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic