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Onboarding and Transitioning into Elixir - EMx 146
The Elixir Mix panel takes the helm to talk about helping onboard and transition new developers onto an Elixir team. They discuss helping developers who may not have an Elixir background. They also advise Chuck on how to make a career transition since he's considering a jump into an Elixir job from his current role as a Rails developer. Panel Allen WymaCharles Max WoodSascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tvPodcastBootcamp.io Links Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTPDesigning for Scalability with Erlang/OTP - O'Reilly Picks Allen- TokioCharles- PodcastBootcamp.ioCharles- Top End DevsCharles- Masters of DoomCharles- The Road Back to YouSascha- Exercism Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora LimitedPlangora – YouTubePlangora | FacebookTech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | InstagramTwitter: Plangora ( @Plangora )LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile DevelopmentPlangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With FlutterFlying High with Flutter – YouTubeFlying High with Flutter | FacebookFlying High With Flutter | InstagramTwitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me CodeTeach Me Code | FacebookTeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
How Far Can You Push a GenServer ft. Brian Underwood - EMx 145
Brian Underwood joins the mix to discuss his recent project where he created a game that would push more and more load onto a genserver to see at what point the performance and usability begins to degrade. The discussion includes an exploration of what this means as your application grows. Panel Allen WymaCharles Max WoodSascha Wolf Guest Brian Underwood Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tvPodcastBootcamp.io Links How Far Can I Push a GenServer?Avoiding Microservice Megadisasters - Jimmy BogardGitHub | bencheeorg/bencheeerlang - npmPortStuff Goes Bad: Erlang in AngerBrian Underwood Twitter: Brian Underwood ( @cheerfulstoic ) Picks Allen- Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19Brian- Elixir in Public Transit 3 case studies from Boston's MBTA | Erlang Solutions webinarBrian- inkCharles- Ready Player Two Charles- Masters of DoomCharles- PodcastBootcamp.ioSascha- Obsidian Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora LimitedPlangora – YouTubePlangora | FacebookTech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | InstagramTwitter: Plangora ( @Plangora )LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile DevelopmentPlangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With FlutterFlying High with Flutter – YouTubeFlying High with Flutter | FacebookFlying High With Flutter | InstagramTwitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me CodeTeach Me Code | FacebookTeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf Special Guest: Brian Underwood .
Pluralsight, Courses, and Elixir the Big Picture ft. AJ Foster - EMx 144
AJ Foster is a developer at Pluralsight. He talks about the course he made for Pluralsight about Elixir and then talks about how Elixir was brought into Pluralsight, both into their catalog of courses as well as into the tech stack for the company. Panel Allen WymaEric BolikowskiSascha Wolf Guest AJ Foster Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tvPodcastBootcamp.io Links Elixir: The Big PictureKeith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19Elixir DiffErlang - heartPRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERINGGitHub: AJ Foster ( aj-foster )Twitter: AJ Foster ( @Austin_J_Foster ) Picks AJ- GitHub | aj-foster/absinthe-socket-transportAJ- FIRSTAllen- Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19Allen- Zero To Production In RustEric- Hardcore ZenSascha- Erlang in Anger Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora LimitedPlangora – YouTubePlangora | FacebookTech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | InstagramTwitter: Plangora ( @Plangora )LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile DevelopmentPlangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With FlutterFlying High with Flutter – YouTubeFlying High with Flutter | FacebookFlying High With Flutter | InstagramTwitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me CodeTeach Me Code | FacebookTeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Eric: LinkedIn: Eric Bolikowski Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf Special Guest: AJ Foster.
Miss Elixir ft. Fernando Hamasaki – EMx 143
Fernando Hamasaki joins the mix to discuss Miss Elixir, where it came from, and what it is. He specifically discusses the application it came from and how it gets used today. Panel Adi IyengarAllen Wyma Guest Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tvPodcastBootcamp.io Links Miss ElixirAdopting Elixir at FindHotelAdd List.intersection/212 Retired MythsWhat do you miss?ecto_commonsFindHotel CareersProdis' blog | Fernando Hamasaki de AmorimGitHub: Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim ( prodis )Twitter: Fernando Hamasaki ( @Prodis ) Picks Adi- SlabAdi- HankAllen- NOCAI’S APOLOGYFernando- The Complete History and Strategy of The NBA Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug CatcherGitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher )Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora LimitedPlangora – YouTubePlangora | FacebookTech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | InstagramTwitter: Plangora ( @Plangora )LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile DevelopmentPlangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With FlutterFlying High with Flutter – YouTubeFlying High with Flutter | FacebookFlying High With Flutter | InstagramTwitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me CodeTeach Me Code | FacebookTeachMeCode | Instagram Special Guest: Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim.
Building PWA's in Elixir and Phoenix ft. Tej Pochiraju - EMx 142
Tej Pochiraju joins the mix to discuss Progressive Web Apps and how you can support them using Elixir and Phoenix. Tej is also an IoT developer, so he discusses how you can tie this all to IoT as well. Panel Allen WymaSascha Wolf Guest Tej Pochiraju Sponsors Dev Influencers AcceleratorLevel Up | Devchat.tv Links Progressive Web Apps & Elixir PhoenixGitHub: Tej Pochiraju ( tejpochiraju ) Twitter: Tej Pochiraju ( @tejpochiraju ) Picks Allen- MJMLAllen- FoundationSascha- You Got This Tej- DatasetteTej- Braid: Synchronization for HTTP Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora LimitedPlangora – YouTubePlangora | FacebookTech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | InstagramTwitter: Plangora ( @Plangora )LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile DevelopmentPlangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With FlutterFlying High with Flutter – YouTubeFlying High with Flutter | FacebookFlying High With Flutter | InstagramTwitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me CodeTeach Me Code | FacebookTeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf Special Guest: Tej Pochiraju.
Domo and Type Validations ft. Ivan Rublev – EMx 141
Ivan Rublev is the author of the open source library, Domo, which provides type validations for Elixir applications. He discusses the types of validations it does and the tradeoffs you get when you can validate the structure of your structs. Panel Charles Max WoodSascha Wolf Guest Ivan Rublev Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links GitHub | IvanRublev/Domodomo | HexTwitter: Ivan Rublev ( @LevviBraun ) Picks Charles- Rhythm of WarCharles- Devchat.tv/levelupIvan- Microservices in ActionSascha- Domain Modeling Made Functional Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf Special Guest: Ivan Rublev.
How to Become a Top End Developer - EMx 140
Charles Max Wood takes the lead this week. He and Adi Iyengar discuss what Top End Devs are and what people should be doing to become Top End Devs. They start out discussing the default trajectory of a developer's career and then talk about how to get boosts off that line and into higher levels of achievement and fulfillment. Panel Adi IyengarCharles Max Wood Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Picks Adi- Build Your Own Web Framework in ElixirAdi- ADI IYENGAR - CODE BEAM AMERICA 2021Adi- Boston ElixirCharles- The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer JobCharles- Devchat.tv/levelup Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug CatcherGitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher )Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Charles: Devchat.tvDevChat.tv | FacebookTwitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv )
Episode 161: Gleam and Typing ft. Louis Pilfold - EMx 139
Louis Pilfold is the creator of the Gleam programming language. He explains what Gleam is and tells us where it came from. He then dives into why he wrote a statically typed language for the BEAM, the challenges involved, and its strengths for programming and tooling. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Eric Bolikowski Sascha Wolf Guest Louis Pilfold Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Gleam News - Gleam GitHub | gleam-lang/otp Language Tour - The Gleam Book GitHub | jamiebuilds/the-super-tiny-compiler Compiling to Assembly from Scratch 120 RR Book Club: Understanding Computation with Tom Stuart | Devchat.tv Gleam: Lean BEAM typing machine - Louis Pilfold | Code BEAM V 2020 Twitter: Gleam Language ( @gleamlang ) Twitter: Louis Pilfold ( @louispilfold ) Picks Adi- Engineering a Compiler Adi- Code BEAM America 2021 Adi- SpawnFest 2021 Allen- Flying High with Flutter - YouTube Allen- Rust Integrated Dart Charles- The Prosperous Coach Charles- Kajabi Charles- Groove Digital Charles- Xero Eric- reMarkable Louis- The Little Typer Louis- The Gleam Programming Language - Discord Sascha- A Type of Programming Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 160: Elixir as a General Purpose Language - EMx 138
This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles. They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Sascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Erlang Term Storage (ETS) dets (stdlib) - (Erlang Documentation) JVM struggles and the BEAM Picks Adi- How to split a router into multiple modules using Phoenix Adi- ElixirConf EU 2021 volunteer application form Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter )
Episode 159: State Management in Elixir - EMx 137
Shortcode: The panel talks about how to manage state in Elixir applications. Sometimes you can get away with internal structures like gen servers and ETS and other times you have to reach to external systems like redis, mongodb, or postgreSQL. This episode will walk you through the ins and outs of managing state and what your options are and what the tradeoffs are between those options. Panel Allen Wyma Eric Bolikowski Sascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Mongo.Ecto Erlang -- persistent_term Erlang Term Storage (ETS) Picks Allen- Real-World Cryptography Eric- Notion Sascha- The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Eric: GitHub: Eric Bolikowski ( ericbolikowski ) LinkedIn: Eric Bolikowski Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 158: Heartbeat and Gen Servers featuring Luca Peppe - EMx 136
Luca Peppe built a health check and heartbeat system for the systems at work in Elixir. While the implementation uses many basic features from Elixir and Phoenix, the way that it underscores the fundamentals of Elixir is helpful for both the experienced and the new Elixir developer. Panel Charles Max Wood Sascha Wolf Guest Luca Peppe Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links How to easily create a healthcheck endpoint for your Phoenix app, the Elixir way GitHub | ostinelli/syn GitHub | ninenines/ranch LinkedIn: Luca Peppe Picks Charles- Audible Charles- The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry Charles- Atlas Shrugged Charles- Oathbringer Luca- Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe Sascha- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 157: Speeding up Elixir Regex replacement at Tubi with Yiming Chen - EMx 135
This week, we talk with Yiming Chen about how drilled into the root cause of some slow requests and how it turned out to be an issue with Elixir's own Regex module. We talk about how they monitor performance at Tubi, what they tried to solve the issue, and how they ssh'ed into production to run more detailed performance monitoring. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Sascha Wolf Guest Yiming Chen Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links How we discovered a 7-year old performance issue in Elixir GitHub | proger/eflame Erlang -- eprof Erlang -- Profiling GitHub | dsdshcym/promox What I learned from implementing Combinators in 3 Elixir patterns Twitter: Yiming Chen ( @dsdshcym ) Picks Adi- Buy a car Adi- GitHub | cuelang/cue Allen- How using hyper in curl can help make the internet safer Allen- 3D Mockups Fast | Rotato Charles- Atlas Shrugged Charles- Home Depot Sascha- Brené Brown: The power of vulnerability Sascha- The Power of Vulnerability Yiming- GitHub | dsdshcym/objext Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 156: Development Setups for Elixir - EMx 134
The panel discusses their development setups, their journeys getting them to where they are now, and the tools they use while they're developing software in Elixir and with Phoenix. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Sascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Atom Spacemacs Neovim IntelliJ IDEA GitHub | KronicDeth/intellij-elixir GitHub | hlissner/doom-emacs entr(1) GitHub | tmux-plugins/tmux-resurrect GitHub | mkchoi212/fac GitHub | emcrisostomo/fswatch GitHub | thebugcatcher/heimdall Earthly Improving Testing & Continuous Integration in Phoenix GitHub | junegunn/fzf GitHub | alacritty/alacritty GitHub | josefs/Gradualizer Josef Svenningsson - A gradual type system - Code BEAM STO - YouTube Picks Adi- Careers at Corvus Adi- GitHub | nccgroup/sobelow Allen- Behind the birth of Dart Allen- Rust Servers, Services, and Apps Charles- Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words Charles- Napoleon Hill's Outwitting the Devil Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 155: Securely Managing Environment Variables using DotEnvy with Everett Griffiths - EMx 133
Everett Griffiths is the author of the DotEnvy library. He wrote the library to help manage environment variables across multiple applications and environments. He and the Elixir Mix panel dive into how DotEnvy works and in the ins and outs of managing environment variables securely from one application to another and from one environment to another. Through development and deployment this is often an overlooked step in keeping things secure while also keeping them simple. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Max Wood Sascha Wolf Guest Everett Griffiths Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links Giving What We Can Community Centre for Effective Altruism LinkedIn: Everett Griffiths Picks Adi- Huntress Adi- GitHub | marp-team/marpit Allen- Rust Web Development Allen- Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir Charles- DigitalOcean Charles- TrainingPeaks Everett- Ruby For Good Everett- Elixir For Good Sascha- Hands-on Rust Sascha- GitHub | mozilla/sops Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf
Episode 154: Milestones in Elixir's Evolution - EMx 132
The Elixir Mix Panel discussions the history of Elixir and the high points and big changes in the language and ecosystem. They go into the big changes that brought about growth in the ecosystem, ease of use in the language, better features, and much more. Panel Adi Iyengar Allen Wyma Charles Wood Sascha Wolf Sponsors Dev Influencers Accelerator Links ElixirConf 2021 Debugging With Tracing in Elixir Call for Proposals for ElixirConf EU 2021 Picks Adi- Simplebet - Software Engineer Adi- Career Opportunities | Annkissam Allen- Just-in-Time Mode - Tailwind CSS Charles- Premium Podcast Feeds | Devchat.tv Charles- Who Not How Charles- The Miracle Morning Charles- Psycho-Cybernetics Charles- As a man Thinketh Charles- Dev Influencers | Devchat.tv Sascha- Bypass - bypass v2.1.0 Contact Adi: Adi Iyengar – The Bug Catcher GitHub: Adi Iyengar ( thebugcatcher ) Twitter: Adi Iyengar ( @lebugcatcher ) Contact Allen: Plangora Plangora Limited Plangora – YouTube Plangora | Facebook Tech_Plangora Limited_Elixir | Instagram Twitter: Plangora ( @Plangora ) LinkedIn: Plangora – Web and Mobile Development Plangora – Reddit Flying High With Flutter Flying High With Flutter Flying High with Flutter – YouTube Flying High with Flutter | Facebook Flying High With Flutter | Instagram Twitter: Flying High with Flutter ( @fhwflutter ) Teach Me Code Teach Me Code Teach Me Code | Facebook TeachMeCode | Instagram Contact Charles: Devchat.tv DevChat.tv | Facebook Twitter: DevChat.tv ( @devchattv ) Contact Sascha: Sascha Wolf