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Elixir Mix

Charles M Woodtopenddevs.com
Join our weekly discussion of the popular functional language built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. Each week, we discuss the world of Elxiir, Phoenix, OTP, and then BEAM.

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Episodes

Exploring Svelte: Power, Simplicity, and Reactivity with Live View in Elixir - EMx 241

Wout De Puysseleir is a freelance software developer. They engage in a detailed exploration of the intricate parallels between Svelte and Live View, examining fundamental concepts and practical applications. From the development of the innovative Live Svelte framework to the challenges and rewards of Elixir adoption, they delve into the technical and professional aspects of the industry. Join them as they dissect the complexities of server-side rendering, client-side reactivity, and the influent...

Feb 21, 202436 min

Real-Time Product Maintenance: Elixir and Phoenix at Supabase - EMx 240

Filipe Cabaço is a software engineer. Allen Wyma and Adi Iyengar host a compelling discussion with Filipe Cabaço from Supabase, diving into the technical intricacies of their real-time product built with Elixir and Phoenix channels. The episode features in-depth insights into load testing, scalability, and the impact of Postgres changes, offering valuable lessons for developers and tech enthusiasts. Join them as they explore the importance of thorough testing, the benefits of Elixir in problem-s...

Feb 14, 20241 hr 2 min

Unlocking Elixir Opportunities - EMx 239

Hayden Evans is the founder of Beam It and an Erlang/Elixir recruitment specialist. They delve into the world of Elixir and niche programming languages. They explore the passion and challenges surrounding the adoption and recruitment of Elixir talent, particularly within startups and production environments. The discussion revolves around the tight-knit Elixir community, the importance of networking, and practical tips for job applications and interviews within this specialized market. Join them...

Jan 31, 202459 min

Credo Evolutions with René Föhring - EMx 238

René Föhring is the Head of Product at 5Minds, an open-source maintainer, and a conference speaker. They delve into a dynamic discussion centered around the intricacies of using Credo, a powerful static analysis tool for the Elixir programming language. Join them as they explore the balance between implementing rules and making informed decisions to suit a team's unique needs. The conversation also touches on configuring checks, the efficiency of Credo checks, recent updates and changes, the imp...

Jan 24, 202437 min

Exploring the Evolution of Kaffy - EMx 237

Abdullah Esmail is an Elixir developer and the creator of Kaffy. They delve into the world of database management tools and the importance of consistency in running currency rate update jobs. They also explore the nuances of two different admin interfaces and the exciting updates and challenges faced by the developers behind these projects. Join them as they discuss upcoming features and the timeline for the next version of Kaffy, along with interesting insights into the development, usability, ...

Jan 17, 202432 min

Streamlining Development with Ash Framework - EMx 236

Zach Daniel is the author of the Ash Framework. They dive into the world of software development, with a focus on the Ash framework. They explore the intricacies and benefits of this revolutionary tool. They discuss the ease of using resources, the new extensions and packages available, and the upcoming release of Ash 3.0. With in-depth conversations about authorization, conditional access, and the philosophy behind Ash, this episode offers valuable insights into the future of application develo...

Jan 10, 202445 min

Caching Complexity: The Evolution of Nebulex in Elixir Applications - EMx 235

Carlos Andres Bolaños is the Chief Architect at SafeBoda. Allen and Carlos delve into the complexities of caching in Elixir applications. They cover topics such as caching algorithms, eviction policies, and the evolution of a caching library, offering insights into the importance of caching for optimization and the challenges involved in refining caching functionality based on feedback and project traction. Join them as they explore the intricacies of caching in the world of Elixir development. ...

Jan 03, 20241 hr

Marketing Success and Technical Challenges - EMx 234

Derek Kraan is an Elixir specialist. They delve into crucial aspects of software development and marketing. They engage in a thorough exploration of topics such as marketing strategies, software package development, and the challenges of product maintenance and launch. They take a deep dive into the complexities of subscription models, pricing strategies, and the sustainability of open-source libraries. The episode also features in-depth conversations about the development of Horde and Swarm pac...

Dec 27, 202351 min

Evolving Elixir with Saša Jurić - EMx 233

Saša Jurić is an Elixir mentor. They engage in insightful discussions on the practical applications of Credo for style enforcement, managing website traffic bursts with Elixir, and simplifying system architecture. Our esteemed guests share valuable insights on testing with Elixir, the expected release of "Elixir in Action," and the importance of defining boundaries in Elixir projects. Tune in to gain valuable knowledge and stay updated on the latest developments in technology and development. Sp...

Dec 13, 202356 min

Navigating Niche Hiring, Remote Teams, and Tech Transitions - EMx 232

Daniel Kulesz a is a software engineer. They delve into the intricate world of Elixir development and the challenges faced by companies in hiring talent for niche skills like Elixir and maintaining specialized projects such as Alexa. They explore the difficulties of managing remote teams and hiring consultants from different time zones and engage in a deep dive into programming languages, tools, and technologies, including the latest advancements in memory control for parallel processing in Elix...

Dec 06, 202352 min

How To Recession Proof Your Job - BONUS

Get the Black Friday/Cyber Monday "Double Your Productivity by 5pm Today" Deal Coupon Code: "THRIVE" for a GIANT discount Are you looking at all the layoffs and uncertainty going on and wondering if your company is the next to cut back? Or, maybe you're a freelancer or entrepreneur who is trying to figure out how to deliver more value to gain or retain customers? Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to discuss the one thing that both of them use to more than double their productivity on a daily basi...

Nov 21, 20231 hr 12 min

Engaging with the Elixir Community - EMx 230

Adi and Allen join this week's panelist episode. They dive into the vibrant Elixir community and explore the importance of open communication and feedback. From the struggles of casual conversation to the excitement of discussing technology, they uncover some interesting stories. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks Adi - SpawnFest 2023 Allen - Yubico | YubiKey Strong Two Factor Authentication Advertising Inquiries: https:/...

Oct 11, 202340 min

Caching, Telemetry, and Beyond: Navigating Software Solutions for Efficient Development - EMx 229

Allen, Adi and Sascha join this week's panelist episode. They talk about the importance of a historical record, logging, and error handling, time operations in Elixir, and code linting with Credo. Moreover, they dive into helpful app development tools, caching with etech plug, telemetry, and open telemetry solutions. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks Adi - ueberauth/ueberauth Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/...

Sep 27, 202354 min

Observability in the Beam: An In-Depth Exploration of Tools and Solutions - EMx 228

Adi, Allen, and Sascha join this week's panelist episode. They dive deep into the world of observability, tracing, and monitoring. They talk about the advantages of using open telemetry directly and how it can be translated into different formats. They also explore the benefits of using tools for understanding and improving code performance during development. Additionally, they take a look at different levels of observability, from Phoenix Live View and Live Dashboard to telemetry and tracing o...

Sep 13, 202348 min

Building Applications with Flexibility and Scalability in Mind - EMx 227

Adi, Allena, and Sascha join this week's panelist episode. They dive into the world of engineering approaches for startups and delve into the ongoing debate of whether software engineering is really engineering. They discuss a unique structure for building a big elixir application, where separate bound contexts are responsible for their own supervision trees. They share their insights on the benefits and challenges of this approach, exploring the balance between pragmatism and forward-thinking. ...

Sep 06, 202350 min

Choosing Elixir as your Language - EMx 226

Bruce Tate is the founder of grox.io . He begins by introducing himself and talking about the services his company provides. They also discuss choosing Elixir as your first language for beginners, its pros and cons, and each of the panel's perspectives regarding it. Moreover, they dive into all things Elixir and many more! Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links grox.io Seven Languages in Seven Weeks The book is on sale this w...

Aug 16, 20231 hr 2 min

Being an Elixir Engineer with Andrea Leopardi - EMx 225

Andrea Leopardi is a Software engineer, author, speaker, and member of the Elixir core team. He begins by sharing his experiences as an Elixir core team member, software engineer and how the Elixir core team manages their projects. Moreover, he talks about his soon-to-be-released book, what it is about, and the motivation for his book. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Social LinkedIn: Andrea Leopardi andrealeopardi.com Picks ...

Aug 09, 202350 min

The Elixir System with Josh Adams - EMx 224

Josh Adams is a Software Engineer at GridPoint. He joins the show to talk about his experience in Elixir. He begins by explaining the reason why prefers the Elixir language compared to the other frameworks. He also shares his journey of transitioning from Ruby to Elixir. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links GridPoint Socials LinkedIn: Josh Adams Picks Adi - Existential Physics Adi - Groxio Learning: Career Fuel for Programm...

Jul 26, 202349 min

Things Lately as a Developer - EMx 223

Adi, Allen, and Sascha join this week's panelist episode to discuss their most recent work update and exciting projects. They also dive into some of the issues they experienced while working on some of their projects and how they handled them. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks Adi - Helix Sascha - Watch Black Mirror | Netflix Official Site Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https:/...

Jul 13, 202350 min

Building Your Web Framework in Elixir with Adi Iyengar - EMx 222

Adi Iyengar is an Engineering Leader, Startup Advisor, Author, and Elixir Mix Podcast Host. He joins Allen to talk about his book, " Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir ". He begins by talking about the process of publishing a book, how he wrote his book and gives some tips to aspiring authors. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Build Your Own Web Framework in Elixir Socials LinkedIn: Adi Iyengar Twitter: aditya7iyenga...

Jul 06, 202343 min

Run Specific Test Cases using ExUnit with Kevin Mathew - EMx 221

Kevin Mathew is a Junior Backend Developer at Qiibee. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Run specific test cases with ExUnit ". He begins sharing how he became an author in ElixirSchool. He also shares the reason why he came up with his article. Additionally, he dives into explaining running specific tests and the panel also shares their own experience & perspective on the different tests. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Dev...

Jun 28, 20231 hr

Deploying Apps with MRSK - EMx 220

Richard Taylor is the CTO at Dizzie. He joins the show to talk about his article, " Multi-Cloud Deployment for Elixir & Phoenix with MRSK ". He begins by sharing how he got into it and what made him interested in Elixir. He explains deploying apps using the MRSK and its difference from AWS. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Multi-Cloud Deployment for Elixir & Phoenix with MRSK Zerotier slackhq/nebula Globally dis...

Jun 07, 202350 min

Sports Betting in Elixir with Nikola Petrušić - EMx 218

Nikola Petrušić is a Software Engineer at theScore. He joins the show to talk about Sports Betting. He begins by sharing his experiences in the industry and how he landed his job. He dives into the concept of sports betting in the Elixir ecosystem. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Wardley Mapping EventStorming What is Last Responsible Moment? | Simplicable Nine Whys commanded Socials Getting in Touch - Email: nikola.pet...

May 17, 202353 min

Building Distributed Systems at Scale - EMx 219

Brent Anderson is a Software engineer at Knock . He builds high-scale messaging systems in Elixir. He joins the show to talk about his article, "Using our One and Done Library to power idempotent API requests" . He begins by explaining the idea of creating a library and the importance of idempotency. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links https://knock.app/blog/using-one-and-done-to-power-idempotency https://en.wikipedia.org/...

May 10, 202355 min

What Have You Used Elixir For Recently? - EMx 217

Adi, Allen, and Sascha join this week's panelist episode to talk about their Elixir projects, recent discoveries, and challenges they have encountered. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks Adi - UNCHARTED: The Lost Legacy Allen - Alan Wake's American Nightmare Sascha - A Short Hike on Steam Sascha - Mario Kart Tour | Nintendo Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/pr...

May 05, 202354 min

Getting to Know Bruce A. Tate - BONUS

Bruce A. Tate is a Founder at Groxio, Elixir Expert, and a Technical Author. He joins the show alongside Charles Max Wood to talk about his book, " Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" . He also delves into some of the preparations and anticipations that come with reading the book. Links Seven Languages in Seven Weeks grox.io Socials LinkedIn: Bruce Tate Twitter: redrapids Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a supporter of th...

Apr 28, 202332 min

Career Growth Opportunities- EMx 216

Charles Max Wood returns to Elixir Mix to discuss career growth opportunities. They dive into coaching and mentoring developers who feel like they're not moving forward in their careers or profession. They offer some advice on how to alter the course of your career and how to build your skills. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Picks Adi - Detox Your Ego Adi - Stick Hero Allen - Call of Duty®: Black Ops Cold War Charles - Ark ...

Apr 26, 20231 hr 1 min

Jason Weimann - Learn Video Game Development with Chuck - BONUS

Jason Weimann is a Developer and Instructor. He returns to the show with Chuck to talk about video game creation. He shares his experiences as a developer and dives into his courses wherein he gives beginners and aspiring developers a walk-through of the world of creating games. Links Game development courses & tutorials Programmer Course – game.courses Socials Twitter: @jweimann Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Become a...

Apr 21, 202350 min

What's Haystack with Philip Brown? - EMx 215

Philip Brown is an Elixir software engineer, and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building and scaling internet software applications and services. He joins the show to talk about " haystack ". It is a simple, extendable full-text search engine written in Elixir. He begins by sharing his motivation to create his project and his purpose for building it. Sponsors Chuck's Resume Template Developer Book Club Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership Links Adding a Table of Cont...

Apr 12, 202348 min

How Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS

Are you dissatisfied with your job? Sam Feeney helps organizations improve employee engagement, increase retention, and reinvent hiring while helping individuals (re)discover career satisfaction in their current roles. He joins the show alongside Chuck Wood to tackle altering the way you perceive your job and talk about Career satisfaction. On YouTube How Do You Stop Hating Your Job? - BONUS Socials LinkedIn: Sam Feeney Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-...

Apr 12, 202345 min
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