Elixir Talk

# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean Stavropoulos We're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL. In this show, we touch on: * The adoption of Elixir early in 2017 * The adoption of GraphQL early * GraphQL vs REST, especially for third party APIs * Hiring Elixir...

# Episode 165 - José Valim on Bytepack, Open Source, and LiveView changes in Phoenix 1.5 Chris and Desmond are backed by a very special guest; José Valim! You might know José as the creator of the Elixir programming language and we're excited to have him back as a 3rd time guest on the show. José walks us through a brand new Dashbit project, Bytepack which is a way to package and sell software projects and takes all of the hassle out of the process today. We dig into Bytepack and discuss...

We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode Chris & Desmond do a deep dive on organizing code in Elixir and talk about some best practices. We recorded this a couple weeks ago so it may sound a little stale :) We touch on: * Module and context naming * How we like to organize code in our projects * Big long modules vs many small modules * How to split up contexts * Injecting code via macros ## Links * On the Criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules - D.L...

We’re back with a recap with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode we cover quite a few topics; an EMPEX LA recap, a foray into project management tools that we like and use (!), and then we round things out by talking about Chris integrating App Signal into his API at Muru. It’s a fun, jam packed episode with us going all around through many topics and go longer than we thought and off on an ops tangent (as usual). Times of topics: - Intro [00:00 - 03:40] - EMPEX LA Recap [03:40 -...

# Episode 162 - Designing Elixir Systems with Bruce Tate It's another episode of ElixirTalk, this time Chris and Desmond are joined by the one and only Bruce Tate author of many notable titles such as Programming Phoenix and Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, as well as being a frequent speaker on the circuit. We dig into the new Designing Elixir Systems with OTP book, that James Edward Gray, II and Bruce co-authored. We talk a lot about the way systems are put together, going into depth about...

# Episode 161 - feat. Todd Resudek We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk, this time joined by the one and only Todd Resudek who gives us a run through of his talk at this years EMPEX LA entitled “It’s Time to Embrace Erlang”. Listen in to hear us discuss Todd’s nerve projects (including his recent LiveView Smart Mirror), why Todd thinks learning you some Erlang as an Elixir developer is important, and even about Hollywood Hogan and some other wrestling trivia. This show has it all....

We’re back! It’s been a while but it’s 2020 and Chris and Desmond are back with a new episode for the new decade. In this very timely episode we dive into the big community news; Plataformatec being acquired and what that means for the community and the new Elixir v1.10-rc.0 release. After that, we accidentally stray once again into a spirited discussion about ops, Kubernetes, and picking technology that suits you right now. Desmond provides some controversial opinions and we kick off the...

Chris and Desmond are back! In this episode we talk about Desmond’s exploration into Property-Based testing, and then do a deep dive into authorization and access control in Chris’ GraphQL API. Property-based testing is a new world for both of us, but we do our best to tell you all about what libraries to use and how we’re thinking of using it. Chris is deep in some reworking of the authorization code in his GraphQL API and we go into depth talking about how it is structured, some of the...

# Episode 158 - Oban, Background Jobs and Designing Resilient Systems in Elixir. In this episode of ElixirTalk Chris & Desmond dive into background jobs using Oban, a new library that relies on Postgres to add persistence to job scheduling. We discuss why you’d want to reach for a library like Oban in the first place, which leads us to a discussion on distributed systems design, failure handling, and some of the gotchas of modeling everything in-memory. We’ve added some extra reading in the...

# Episode 157 – LiveView & The Future of Phoenix ft. Chris McCord Today on ElixirTalk we’re joined by Chris McCord who you may know as the creator of the Phoenix framework, and a second time guest on ElixirTalk. In this episode we talk quite a bit about LiveView, the journey of taking it from a prototype to release, the optimizations that have come along the way, and some of the great examples of LiveView running today. We get into some of our previous discussions about the balance of...

# Episode 156 - Desmond & Chris face-to-face In todays special episode Desmond and Chris are together in NYC in-person for the first time in the history of recording Elixir talk. In the episode we dig into Desmond’s new role as CTO at Payitoff and talk about how Elixir helps in managing the complexity of student loans processing. We also discuss best practices in Elixir, some common gotchas in working in the language and more. ## Todays topics include: * Using tuples and tagged tuples *...

# Episode #155 - A special look into Lumen Today we have an extra special episode for you where we dig into a project you may have seen announced at the recent US Elixir Conference; Lumen, which is an alternate BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly. On the show we’re joined by the core members of the Lumen team: Brian Cardarella, Paul Schoenfelder, Luke Imhoff, and Hans Elias Bukholm Josephsen. We get into a lot of the details about the project; why it exists, what the goals are,...

ElixirTalk Episode 154 – ElixirConf recap and more! We’re back with another ElixirTalk episode after a short break! This time featuring Chris and Desmond reflecting on a great ElixirConf! We discuss our standout talks, as well as digging into the keynotes from Dockyard (Lumen), José Valim, Justin Schneck and Chris McCord. At the end of the episode we debate LiveView and it’s place in the broader JS ecosystem. Chris and Desmond somewhat disagree in this case. Let us know your thoughts, we’d...

Episode 153 – The Dream stack with Rust & Elixir feat. Dave Lucia We kick things off by hearing about the newly launched Elixir Training :tada: which y’all should check out if you’re looking to learn the language, or have friends who might. In todays episode we’re joined by Dave Lucia, VP of Engineering at SimpleBet where we hear about the use of the “Dream Stack” (you heard it here first folks!), which is Elixir using Rust NIFs for performance reasons (in their case calculating real-time...

# Episode 152 - The joys of Ecto This week it’s a Chris & Desmond episode! We kick things off by hearing all about Desmond’s latest project – Hire an Elixir Developer – a job board to help companies attract Elixir talent that’s launching soon. We dig into how Desmond has been writing his latest project, hear a bit about how he’s using LiveView and how he’s chasing boring technology to get this project done (Phoenix & Elixir). Chris has also been writing lots of code this week (and has kept...

# Episode 151 – Dave Thomas & Brian Mitchell In this special episode of ElixirTalk we are joined by Dave Thomas and Brian Mitchell where we continue a discussion that we had at EMPEX NYC this year as a fishbowl style format. If you haven’t yet seen the talk, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/pcbNT1iKebc –– probably best if you watch before listening, but you can also listen to this as a standalone episode. This episode is long, but is packed with some great tidbits about Elixir and Erlang...

Episode 150 - Clojerl with Juan Facorro This week on the show we’re joined by Juan Facorro, an avid Erlang-er and creator of Clojerl, a Clojure port written in Erlang. We give you an update about Elixir Training, and tell you a bit more about a potential bar / meetup we at EMPEX will be hosting during ElixirConf this year in Denver (if we can find a bar). We then get Juan to give us a run through of Clojerl, diving into the project, his motivations for creating it and going in-depth to some...

This week we don’t have a guest, so it’s just Chris & Desmond. We kick things off discussing our opening music and how weird it is listening to yourself on a podcast. Desmond tells us about his exploration into webflow and his love (hate) for CSS. We dig into bits in the language that still trip us up, even now with our experience in the language. We dig into some Ecto: query syntax that trips us up, materialized views, application logic vs database logic and lots of other database goodies....

Elixir Talk 148 - Feat Maxim Federov Desmond gives us an update on his truck and the work he’s been doing there. Chris tells us about how he’s been getting back into coding and how he’s been writing Absinthe and GraphQL. We announce a special new announcement: the launch of Elixir Training, our new business where we’re going out and looking to train more folks on Elixir across the US. We also have a special guest on the show this week: Maxim Federov a Software Engineer at WhatsApp. We dive...

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