The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
193: Operational Elixir: Observing the Midsize Madness
In this engaging third episode of our series, Dave Lucia returns to delve into the various systems that support small and medium-sized teams and companies for their Elixir systems. Dave shares insights gained from a range of situations including working at startups on up to Series C and D sized companies, with a particular focus on the critical role of observability tools. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dave discusses how these tools can greatly enhance a team's ability to monitor and troubleshoot applications, ensuring high performance and reliability. Tune in for a comprehensive look at the essential systems and tools that can make a tangible difference in the day-to-day operations of Elixir-powered organizations, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/193
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1762921819776934146 – José Valim has teased a new feature for Elixir 1.17 which may include a
mix testflag--breakpointsfor debugging failed tests. - https://gleam.run/news/gleam-version-1/ – Gleam v1.0 has been released, marking the language's stability and readiness for production with a commitment to maintain backwards compatibility.
- https://github.com/underjord/entrace – Lars Wikman shared his work on the Entrace tracing project, offering easier tracing support to applications.
- https://github.com/underjord/entrace_live_dashboard – Entrac LiveDashboard was announced by Lars Wikman to add a tracing page to the LiveDashboard plugin.
- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGxJUadP1CaaU6EnTwe7Hv76RnBLIiqT6SJLIBvncHcEzGRg/viewform – The Call for Proposals for talks at ElixirConfUS is open, including information to book hotel rooms for the event taking place from August 28-30, 2024.
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com
Discussion Resources
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about RabbitMQ and Commanded
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/97 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Avro and Elixir
- https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/129 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Time series data with Timescale DB
- https://Sentry.io
- https://www.servicenow.com/products/observability.html – Observability tool formerly knowns as LightStep
- https://www.honeycomb.io/
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
- https://github.com/open-telemetry
- https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/
- https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry
- https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry_exporter
- https://davelucia.com/ – Dave's personal blog
- https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
- https://grafana.com/
- https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/
- https://fly.io/docs/reference/metrics/
- https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
- https://amplitude.com/
- Custom LiveView admin pages for dashboards
- https://postmarkapp.com/
- https://sendgrid.com/en-us
- https://milkroad.com/ – A newsletter company that Dave Lucia worked at.
- https://www.beehiiv.com/ – Newsletters as a service company
- https://ahrefs.com/ – Tracking the back links from other sites to yours for SEO
- https://search.google.com/search-console/about
- https://github.com/dbernheisel/phoenix_seo
- https://tvlabs.ai/ – Where Dave Lucia is working now.
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/davydog187 – on Twitter
- https://github.com/davydog187/ – on Github
- https://davelucia.com – Blog
- https://tvlabs.ai – TVLabs company where he works now.
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