In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Evadne Wu about the Packmatic Library.

The show begins with recent announcements specifically the acquisition of Plataformatec.

Evadne works at Faria Education Group as Head of Exam Sytems developing apps using Elixir. Evadne works with a small team and he talks about the pros and cons of working in a small team.

Evadne then talks about what the Packmatic Library is, why it was created, and how it works. Finally, Evadne talks about writing, promoting and maintaining an open source library.

Panelists

• Mark Ericksen

• Eric Oestrich

• Sophie DeBenedetto

Guest

• Evadne Wu

Sponsors

• CacheFly

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Links

• https://elixirforum.com/t/plataformatec-acqui-hired-by-nubank/28072/7?u=brainlid

• http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2020/01/important-information-about-our-elixir-and-ruby-open-source-projects/

• https://medium.com/building-nubank/tech-perspectives-behind-nubanks-first-acquisition-deal-what-this-business-move-means-and-how-it-d7d1233c72b8

• Evadne's Twitter

• Evadne's GitHub

• Evadne's Website

• https://github.com/evadne/packmatic

• https://elixirforum.com/t/packmatic-on-the-fly-zip-generation/26464

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#ZIP64

• https://hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.Conn.html#send_chunked/2

• https://github.com/evadne/packmatic#source-types

Picks

Eric Oestrich:

• https://bulletjournal.com/

Sophie DeBenedetto:

• https://grox.io/series/quad

• Williams Sonoma Mug

Mark Ericksen:

• https://weasyprint.org/

• https://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html

Evadne Wu:

• http://smallmemory.com/book.html

• https://github.com/holsee/chroxy