EMx 052: Production Pitfall Pontification

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Panel

• Michael Ries
• Josh Adams

Summary Michael Ries and Josh Adams share mistakes they have made and common pitfalls developers fall into during production. They start by discussing Heroku and Josh explains what pushed him away from Heroku. They discuss alternatives to Heroku and give tips on finding that “deployment sweet spot”. Moving on to configuration, they discuss the most common configuration error and their favorite configuration tools. Michael and Josh share the ways they use clustering. Using their own experiences they explain how they fell into these pitfalls warning new elixir developers, giving advice and sharing career hacks. Links

• https://nanobox.io/
• https://gigalixir.com/
• https://hex.pm/packages/conform
• https://github.com/bitwalker/toml-elixir
• https://github.com/keathley/vapor
• https://github.com/coryodaniel/bonny
• https://hex.pm/packages/libcluster
• http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/04/whats-new-in-elixir-apr-19/
• https://jenkins.io/projects/jenkins-x/
• https://hex.pm/packages/lbm_kv
• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix
• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix

Picks Michael Ries:

• http://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
• https://hex.pm/packages/recon
• Manipulating the YouTube Algorithm

Josh Adam:

• https://noagendaplayer.com/

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