We talk with Engineering Manager and Elixirist Catalina Astengo about using gRPC, Protobuf and Elixir to standardize communication between microservices, why and when to reach for gRPC and why Elixir lends itself so well to this pattern of communication. Panel Sophie DeBenedetto Steven Nunez Alex Koutmos Lars Wikman Guest Catalina Astengo Picks Alex - AMD Ryzen™ 9 3950X Alex - A brief introduction to BEAM Lars - Webcam Settings App Lars - Underjord Steven - Packwerk Steven - Bakeware Sophie - ht...
Dec 08, 2020•52 min
We discuss how to learn and love Elixir and other functional languages, the importance of people and community in learning, the perfect autumnal cocktail and so much more with Randall Thomas—drinker, hacker and bon vivant! Panel Sophie DeBenedetto Steven Nunez Alex Koutmos Bruce Tate Special Guest Randall Thomas Sponsors Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders ` Audible.com Links Let Over Lambda—50 Years of Lisp Haskell Programming from First Principles WHAT I WISH I KNEW WHEN LEARNING...
Dec 01, 2020•51 min
Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "DEEP" for a GIANT discount Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state. He starts by telling us how he was passed over for a promotion at Qualcomm in favor of someone younger and less experienced and how...
Nov 27, 2020•1 min
This guest barely needs an introduction and we roll quickly forward from his one-punch knockout book Elixir in Action and onward. Saša makes the panel consider what we could and maybe should be doing with Elixir in the future. We talk about his talks, his libraries and his overall vision for what the future could and possibly should hold. Rather than reading this, you should be listening because the erlangelist is talking and it serves us all to pay attention. Links KEYNOTE: Using the Beam to fi...
Nov 24, 2020•54 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, Feather Knee joins us to discuss her recent ElixirConf2020 talk on LiveView components, what its like learning LiveView with a React background and where LiveView really shines as a framework. We also chat about fall foliage, pumpkin recipes and ghosts, since it’s that time of year. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Feather Knee Picks Alex Koutmos: https://github.c...
Nov 17, 2020•47 min
In this episode of ElixirMix, we talk with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg about the JIT compiler that will be landing in OTP 24, the performance implications that come along with it and the inside scoop on the Erlang core team. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Mika Kalathil Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Guests John Högberg Lukas Larsson Links HiPE The JIT Pull Request AsmJit Picks Alex Koutmos: https://github.com/features/ac...
Nov 03, 2020•46 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we are joined by inimitable Luke Imhoff who takes us on a wild journey through his background from low-level, to high-level and straight back into compiler land as we work our way towards talking about Lumen. And what a conversation that is. WebAssembly, working group politics, sneaking binaries into the enterprise and so much more. The big take-away is that the Lumen project is a very cool effort to give us more options for running Erlang, Elixir and friends that ...
Oct 27, 2020•57 min
Connor Rigby of Nerves fame joins our motley crew to talk about the new Blue Heron library that brings Bluetooth Low-Energy/BLE to Nerves. He goes deep, he goes wide. We learn a lot. And beyond that we cover the Spawnfest darling we know as Bakeware that creates single static binaries from Elixir projects and some Flutter. We almost fall into car talk but mostly steer clear. This is a wild one! Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Jos...
Oct 20, 2020•34 min
Podcast: Play in new window | Download In this episode of Elixir Mix, our panel shares their thoughts on this year’s fully remote ElixirConf, from the Purple Carpet to the remote workshops to an excellent slate of great talks! Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Mika Kalathil Bruce Tate Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Links https://twitter.com/meryldakin https://github.com/spawnfest/bakeware https://getlumen.or...
Oct 13, 2020•43 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, the hosts follow up with Phil Toland on his journey from small startup to PepsiCo Ecommerce and cover lots of important topics along the way. Such as Kubernetes, deleting mysterious S3 buckets, lots of assorted Machine Learning and lots of hype about Elixir in general. Steven fires shots at Go. Bruce wants to talk about Julia. Lars still only really cares about Lumen. And Alex wants that sweet, sweet secret ML sauce. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket F...
Oct 06, 2020•44 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix the panelists talk about conferences as the conference season is hitting its virtual stride. And then it quickly devolves into LiveViews, dead views, UI libraries and of course, Elm. A thrilling ride of an episode according to all hosts and surely some listeners. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Lars Wikman Picks Alex Koutmos: What’s new in LiveView – Chris McCord | ElixirConfEU Virtual Fol...
Sep 29, 2020•49 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we’re joined by Lau Tornskau, creator of the tzdata library and prolific Elixir open-source contributor, to talk about how to ensure “correctness” of time-related data in Elixir and how Elixir’s standard library has grown to include native support for handling time zones. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Mika Kalathil Bruce Tate Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Lau Taarnskov Links www.creativedel...
Sep 22, 2020•44 min
The podcasting competition comes to visit as we invite Desmond Bowe on the show. After some questions he flips the script and more or less interviews the panel. It is a dangerous time to be a host. Sponsors Audible.com Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Bruce Tate Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Guest Desmond Bowe Links Using Maps in Typespecs payitoff.io Picks Alex Koutmos: From Elixir to Erlang – experience report – Michal Muskala | Code BEAM V 20...
Sep 15, 2020•50 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to. Sponsors Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Josh Adams Bruce Tate Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Adolfo Neto Links https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@ad...
Sep 08, 2020•49 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Todd Resudeck about how digging into Erlang empowers you as an Elixir developer, what’s so fun about Nerves and what makes him such a charming and hilarious conference speaker. Sponsors Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Bruce Tate Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Todd Resudek Links What Elixir is about – José Valim – Erlang User Conference 2015 GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša J...
Sep 01, 2020•44 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Jon Lunsford about Elixir’s many releases and deployment options, why/how to deploy Elixir with Terraform and we learn why Jon built an SMTP server in Elixir! Sponsors Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Panel Alex Koutmos Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Jon Lunsford Picks Sophie DeBenedetto: ElixirConf 2020 Alex Koutmos: The State of Elixir HTTP Clients Portable ACs Steven Nuñez: Fans TailWind UI Jon Lunsford: ...
Aug 25, 2020•34 min
We talk with Justin Schneck, co-auth of Nerves, about how he got into embedded programming, why Elixir (and Nerves!) is the the best fit for designing resilient embedded systems and what’s next for the Nerves community. Panelists Alex Koutmos Josh Adams Mika Kalathil Bruce Tate Steven Nuñez Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Justin Schneck Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders Cache...
Aug 18, 2020•1 hr
In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Dosé joins us to talk about some of the open source work that he has done at Peek. He also talks to us about his exciting Nerves projects Xebow and AFK. Panelists Steven Nunez Lars Wikman Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Chris Dosé Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout Groxio.io | Career Rocket Fuel For Curious Coders CacheFly Links iCalendar GitHub Chris Dosé GitHub ElixirSeattle/xebow Picks Steven Nunez...
Aug 11, 2020•55 min
Given the current state of the world, we've been put into a position where things have lost jobs or lost in other areas of life. The panel discusses how to make the most of things when hard things come your way. Panelists Soojin Ro Alex Bush Charles Max Wood Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout CacheFly Links Course Creator Pro How To Write & Launch Your Book To $10,000 in 90 Days The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Develo...
Aug 04, 2020•47 min
The Elixir Mix podcast celebrates its 100th episode, with the introduction of new panelists and the recognition of the indelible contribution made by Mark Eirkson, who recently said goodbye to us. We dive into what brought each panelist to the Elixir community and what continues to excite them about the Elixir ecosystem. Panelists Sophie DeBenedetto Josh Adams Bruce Tate Lars Wikman Steven Nunez Alex Koutmos Mika Kalathil Charles Max Wood Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source p...
Jul 28, 2020•2 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panelists talk about a wide array of topics ranging from LiveView, type systems, and hot code upgrades. We also talk about some of the things that we want to experiment with in the coming months. Panelists Josh Adams Bruce Tate Lars Wikman Mika Kalathil Alex Koutmos Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout CacheFly Links GitHub knewter/extris elm-pages GitHub dillonkearns/elm-markdown Picks Bruce Tate:...
Jul 21, 2020•1 hr 3 min
We talk with Alex de Sousa about how to improve the configuration of our Elixir applications. We learn about his path through configuration management and the interesting ways he found to solve this common problem. He shares his library Skogsrå and explains where this fits in our applications, the problems it helps solve and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Mark Ericksen Guest Alex de Sousa Sponsors Scout APM | We'll donate $5 to the open source project of your choice when you deploy Scout CacheF...
Jul 14, 2020•46 min
We talk with Steve Bussey about his book Real-Time Phoenix, his library ecto_tenancy_enforcer, and we delve into user auth. We cover how TDD works for us, approaches to partitioning user data, recent auth developments in the community and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Mark Ericksen Guest Steve Bussey "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! Links SalesLoft The Pragmatic Bookshelf GitHub sb8244/ecto_tenancy-en...
Jun 30, 2020•49 min
In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Andrea Leopardi about how they solved sharing Protobuf protocols across multiple projects for their RabbitMQ consumers. We also learn the benefits they found of using Elixir in a microservices architecture, the benefits of Broadway and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest Andrea Leopardi "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! Links ...
Jun 16, 2020•41 min
Mark talks with Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim about his experience adopting Elixir at findhotels.net . He shares his strategy of introducing Elixir through hack-a-thons, what kinds of projects work well to start with and tips around learning and building a team. We discuss umbrella projects, pattern matching for data transformation, and learning about managing configuration in Elixir applications and much more! Panelists Mark Ericksen Guest Fernando Hamasaki de Amorim "The MaxCoders Guide to Findi...
Jun 02, 2020•43 min
We catch up with Devon Estes to learn what he’s doing with Credo. Devon talks about creating custom Credo checks for the benefit of our teams and projects. We cover his project Nicene that defines additional Credo checks, learn tips like using git to only run checks on modified files and much more! Panelists Sophie DeBenedetto Josh Adams Mark Ericksen Guest Devon Estes "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! L...
May 27, 2020•37 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 13th to 15th - register now! We catch up with Lars Wikman to talk about what he’s learned along his journey with Elixir and multi-tenant databases. We cover what multi-tenant means, multiple ways to do it and where it may or may not make sense. We learn about dynamic repos, query prefixes, and how to deal with migrations, testing, and much more! Panelists Sophie DeBenedetto Josh Adams Mark Ericksen Guest Lars Wikman "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Devel...
Apr 28, 2020•48 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panelists talk with Alvise Susmel about building Elixir systems that leverage Python image detection on video frames. We cover Ports vs NIFs, using platforms for their strengths, cool embedded hardware, displaying real time results in Phoenix or Scenic, and much more! Panelists Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest Alvise Susmel Sponsors CacheFly ______________________________________________________...
Apr 14, 2020•47 min
JavaScript Remote Conf 2020 May 14th to 15th - register now! In this episode of Elixir Mix the panelists talk with David Bernheisel about the power in Ecto. Coming from ActiveRecord, Ecto and Changesets were a wonderful alternative! They cover David’s blog post where he shares some tips and tricks for working with Changesets. They also cover, Multi, how to compose Changesets, using “embedded” schemas, and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest David Bernheisel Spo...
Mar 31, 2020•45 min
In this episode of ElixirMix , we visit with Alex Koutmos about data processing pipelines in Elixir using Broadway. His multi-part blog posts go beyond “making it work” to monitoring and visualizing the flow . We discuss using RabbitMQ to process, Grafana to visualize, and much more! Panelists Josh Adams Eric Oestrich Sophie DeBenedetto Mark Ericksen Guest Alex koutmos Sponsors CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Develo...
Mar 17, 2020•37 min
