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Thinking Elixir Podcast

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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. Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more. Guests visit the show to help challenge our

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78: Logflare with Chase Granberry

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/12/21

We talk with Chase Granberry about Logflare. We learn why Chase started the company, what Logflare does, how it's built on Elixir, about their custom Elixir logger, where the data is stored, how it's queried, and more! We talk about dealing with the constant stream of log data, how Logflare is collecting and displaying metrics, and talk more about Supabase acquiring the company! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/78 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/78) Elixir Community News -

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77: EMPEX Mtn and Starting Knock with Chris Bell

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/12/14

We talk with Chris Bell, host of the Elixir Talk podcast and EMPEX conference organizer. Chris tells us about a new EMPEX chapter in the US Western states. EMPEX MTN will be in Salt Lake City, Utah. Chris started a new company called Knock using Elixir. We hear what problems it helps solve and more about his startup journey. A fun discussion with some tech insights, architecture overviews, and more on the rollercoaster of starting your own thing! Show Notes online -

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76: Safe Ecto Migrations with David Bernheisel

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/12/07

We talk with host David Bernheisel about his Safe Ecto Migrations guide that was recently released. Intended as a resource for the community, it’s a 4-part series covering how Ecto migrations work, running migrations on production, provides a set of common-task recipes and strategies for migrating data in addition to DB structure. We discuss ideas around migrations like avoiding table locks on production, how to safely add DB check constraints, separating data migrations from structure changes,

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75: RabbitMQ and Commanded at Simplebet with Dave Lucia

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/11/30

We talk with Dave Lucia about Simplebet’s use of RabbitMQ and Commanded for solving unique real-time problems. We learn how Simplebet uses Elixir when creating real-time sports betting markets. We also learn what CQRS systems are, how the Commanded library supports that in Elixir, and how Commanded pairs well with RabbitMQ. Dave talks about moving away from Kafka to RabbitMQ and how that made sense for their use cases. Also valuable, Dave shares where they have found the “dragons” in their design. A

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74: New to Elixir and Women in Tech with Miki and...

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/11/23

We talk with mother/daughter team Miki and Kate Rezentes about their experiences learning and working with Elixir and as women in the tech industry. Miki presented “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption” at ElixirConf. Her focus was on the people aspect of adoption and we had a great time going deeper on that topic here. Kate, who is just starting her career as a developer, talks about ways we can share tech with the young people around us. We get their ideas and suggestions for ways to support women in

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73: Elixir at Supabase with Paul Copplestone

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/11/16

We talk with Paul Copplestone, founder and CEO of Supabase. Supabase leverages the power of Elixir, Postgres, and more to create an OpenSource Firebase alternative that brings these powers to the Jamstack community. We cover TechCrunch’s coverage of their funding and how Paul considers Supabase as “the easiest way to use Postgres”. They offer a row-level security feature and we dig in to understand that. We go deeper on how an OpenSource company got VC funding and how their business model works

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72: TypeCheck with Wiebe-Marten Wijnja

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/11/09

We talk with Wiebe-Marten Wijnja about his project TypeCheck that provides a new kind of runtime type checking for Elixir applications. The syntax builds on your existing spec types so it still works for dialyzer but adds additional compile time created checks. It also works for generating property based test data. This feature comes out in a new ability called "spectest". Like doctests, you can have automated checks that verify the function adheres to the spec! We also cover how TypeCheck allows

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71: LiveView and the 7-GUI Tasks with German Velasco

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/11/02

We catch up with German Velasco then talk about how he learned of the 7-GUI Tasks online challenge and how he wanted to see how LiveView could approach it. We talk about his ElixirConf presentation and how the idea of modeling state impacted his solutions to these problems. We go over what these common UI patterns are and how LiveView is able to approach them differently. We talk about Chris McCord’s idea of “Live Apps” and how LiveView really is different from what other languages and communities

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70: PardallMarkdown with Alfred Reinold Baudisch

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/10/26

After a big news section, we talk with Alfred Reinold Baudisch about his project PardallMarkdown. It's a reactive Elixir server that reads markdown files, compiles them to HTML, stores them in an ETS table, and serves them up. It's a different take on serving markdown files for a blog. It can also be used as a wiki and supports deeply nested hierarchies. An interesting feature is it can be used as a library inside your own Phoenix application to provide blog posts or other "static" content. Show

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69: Elixir on Mobile with Dominic Letz

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/10/19

We talk with Dominic Letz about running Elixir on an Android phone installed in an APK which hosts a LiveView application accessed through a WebView! All while also pursuing a Web 3.0 architecture of being decentralized! Wow! There’s a lot going on here! Oh, and the tech is OpenSource! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/69) Elixir Community News - https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#162-2021-10-08

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68: Rust and Elixir with Nik Begley

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/10/12

We talk with Niklas Begley about his Doctave service and the problems it's solving. From there we cover why they use Rust for a key piece of the service and how Elixir fits in. We cover tools like Rustler for integrating Elixir and Rust smoothly. We talk about business drivers, Nik's experience building a SaaS product using Elixir and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/68 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/68) Elixir Community News - https://github.com/hauleth/mix_unused

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67: Building a Healthy Community

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/10/05

We talk about ways we can all contribute to building a healthy Elixir community. The Elixir community is a welcoming, encouraging and helpful place and we want to help keep it that way! We talk about common problems facing maintainers, tips for engaging productively, the value of expressing appreciation, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/67 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/67) Elixir Community News - https://www.erlang.org/news/149

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66: Tracing Production with Kai Wern Choong

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/09/28

We talk with Kai Wern Choong about his experience with tracing performance problems in production. We talk about what “tracing” means in a BEAM system, available tools like recon, great resources for learning how the tools work and general approaches for troubleshooting live production Elixir systems. Kai also shares his Livebook notebook setup for demonstrating tracing techniques in an interactive way. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/66

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65: Meet Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/09/21

We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language! He also shares some of his interests outside of computing. Meet Aleksei! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/65 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/65) Elixir Community News - https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/issues/1617

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64: OTP Certificate Woes with Bram Verburg

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/09/14

We talk with Bram Verburg about an important root certificate expiring at the end of September and how this impacts your Elixir and Erlang projects! Bram helps explain where this IS and IS NOT a problem. He also explains the different update options available. We also get Bram’s security perspectives from his years of focused study and contributions in the Elixir and Erlang communities. A great resource for understanding the current certificate situation and for protecting your Elixir projects! Show

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63: SMS Texting in Nerves with Peter Ullrich

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/09/07

We talk with Peter Ullrich about his experience sending SMS messages from a Raspberry Pi Zero using Nerves. We cover what went well, what didn’t and get a glimpse into the current state of Nerves for a newbie when dealing with hardware. Peter also tried Livebook for Nerves and had a great experience with that. We discuss the challenges of hardware systems dealing with the “real world” but see how Elixir makes the process easier to model and think about. Show Notes online -

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62: Chris McCord joins Fly.io and Phoenix 1.6

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/08/31

We talk with Chris McCord about his recent announcement that he’s moved to work at Fly.io! We cover what this means for the Phoenix project and ongoing Phoenix development work. He shares why he’s excited about the Fly platform which includes how it replaces his need for a CDN! We also talk about the new Phoenix 1.6 release and all the goodness coming there. This release includes the HEEX engine for validated HTML at compile time, making the auth generators official, a new mailer generator, and the

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61: Elixir's Recent Brex-it

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/08/24

We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally. We share our perspectives on Elixir, how it’s different from the languages we’ve used before and the unique value we get from it. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61) Elixir Community News -

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60: Compile Faster with Marc-André Lafortune

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/08/17

We talk with Marc-André Lafortune about reducing Elixir project compile times. On larger projects, when a single file like a view template is changed and over 100 files get recompiled, there is something wrong. Marc-André explains how he identified the problems in his project and contributed to Elixir’s mix xref tool making it easier for us to find those problems in our own projects! We cover how these tooling improvements were used to improve the upcoming Phoenix 1.6 and Elixir 1.13! An additional

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59: How Elixir Came to Spotify with Joel Kemp

Thinking Elixir Podcast ·

2021/08/10

We talk with Joel Kemp about his experience introducing Elixir at Spotify. We learn about the concurrency problems he had with the default stack and how that was solved with the BEAM. We talk about the inertia that larger companies have that make introducing any change harder. Joel compares the process to running a marathon and shares some tactics used to help build internal support and interest. Fascinating insight into a well known company and how Elixir is helping internally. Show Notes online -

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