Elixir RoundTable

24: Elixir Roundtable #24: Launching and Growing with Elixir with Chase Granberry

Things Mentioned In this conversation, DockYard CEO Brian Cardarella talks with Logflare founder and Supabase team member Chase Granberry about Chase's experience with Elixir. They discuss Chase's background as an engineering manager who didn't write code and his transition to launching Logflare with Elixir. After choosing Elixir to start Logflare, Chase was able to rapidly build a launchable digital product without being held back by many of the complexities inherent to other languages, like Ja...

23: Elixir Roundtable #23: What's Next in Tech with Tech Entrepreneur Foy Savas

Things Mentioned In this conversation, Brian Cardarella interviews Foy Savas about his career trajectory and experiences in the tech industry. They discuss the opportunities and challenges in the tech world, the changes in what it takes to launch a successful digital product, and the importance of product market fit and pivots. They also explore future plans and technology trends, including the potential impact of AI. The conversation highlights the significance of tech decisions for startups an...

22: Elixir Roundtable #22: Making the Switch to Elixir with Amplified's Chris Grainger

Things Mentioned In this conversation, Chris Grainger, CTO of Amplified, discusses how he decided to adopt Elixir at Amplified and the benefits he's seen from it. The conversation covers topics such as functional programming, the benefits of Elixir and LiveView, the integration of Nx and ONNX, and transitioning to a mono-language company. Chris discusses the benefits he's seen first hand after shifting from Python to Elixir, including cutting Amplified's AWS bill in half, achieving the same amou...

21: Elixir RoundTable #21 - ECSx: Elixir for GameDev

Things Mentioned Brooklin and the DockYard team speak with our very own Andrew Berrien on his open-source library, ECSx. It focuses on Elixir specifically for game development. Read Andrew's blog below! https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/07/06/ecsx-a-new-approach-to-game-development-in-elixir Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy, use...

20: Elixir RoundTable #20 - DockYard Academy Graduates Yusef Mosiahc Nathanson and Einar Engström

Things Mentioned Brooklin Myers and two recent DockYard Academy graduates discuss their experience completing the course. A few friends from the DockYard engineering team join in to learn more. Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy, user experience, design, and full stack engineering. Learn more about DockYard's services. (https:/...

19: Keeping Yourself Energized in Engineering with Mike & Brooklin

Things Mentioned Mike Binns a DockYard Principal Engineer, Brooklin Meyers - DockYard Academy's lead instructor, and Matthew Stebbins DockYards Marketing Manager discuss how to stay energized within their respective fields and share their stories about what helps them get through the peaks and valleys of their careers Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professi...

18: LiveView Native with Brian C and Brooklin

Things Mentioned Brooklin and Brian Cardarella discuss the current state of DockYard's very own, LiveView Native, and how to grow the Elixir ecosystem in such a competitive marketplace. Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy, user experience, design, and full stack engineering. Learn more about DockYard's services. (https://dockyar...

17: Numerical Elixir with Paulo Valente

Things Mentioned Brooklin and the DockYard crew speak with Paulo about machine learning using Numerical Elixir 🔗's DockYard Website: https://dockyard.com/ Numerical Elixir Github: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx DockYard's Blogs on NX: https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/03/15/nx-for-absolute-beginners https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/07/12/elixir-versus-python-for-data-science 💻's https://twitter.com/DockYard https://www.linkedin.com/company/dockyard/ Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital...

16: Firefly update with Brian C and Paul S

Things Mentioned Brian Cardarella and the team speak with Paul Schoenfelder, a Firefly (fka Lumen) core team member about why this R&D initiative is essential to DockYard and when you can see more of it. DockYard Website: https://dockyard.com/ Firefly Landing Page: https://getfirefly.org/ Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy,...

15: LiveView Native

Things Mentioned ElixirConff 22 Keynote: LiveView Native: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnDGh_Jmw-s Overview: https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/01/dockyard-r-d-build-elixir-web-native-apps-seamlessly-with-liveview-native LiveView Native Update: https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/09/liveview-native-weekly-update-1 LiveView Native Update: https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/09/18/liveview-native-weekly-update-2 LiveView Native Landing Page: https://native.live/ Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a...

14: Type Anarchy

Nathan Long and the Dockyard team discuss how to fix test deadlocks caused by database transactions. The engineering team also weighs in on how they feel about types in Elixir. Things Mentioned https://gist.github.com/nathanl/b7142... https://hexdocs.pm/ecto_sql/3.7.1/Ect... https://www.postgresql.org/docs/curre... https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/... https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/dialyz... https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/ https://elm-lang.org/ https://www.idris-lang.org/index.html Bro...

13: Bandit and Thousand Island with Mat Trudel

Mat is the author of the Thousand Island and Bandit libraries, meant to be drop-in replacements for Ranch and Cowboy. Things Mentioned Bandit: https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit Thousand Island: https://github.com/mtrudel/thousand_i... Mat’s Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtZBT... Books referenced about origins of the internet: “The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop -https://press.stripe.com/the-dream-ma... “Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet” by Katie Hafner -http...

12: Unreliable Dirt Ox

Things Mentioned Rockwell talks about converting his METAR Map project to Nerves, Brooklin updates us on the DockYard Academy, and Mike talks more about his Flame On! library. METAR map on Nerves (https://github.com/schrockwell/metar_map_nerves) DockYard Academy curriculum (https://github.com/DockYard-Academy/beta_curriculum) Flame On (https://hexdocs.pm/flame_on/readme.html) swappy (https://crates.io/crates/swappy) markov (https://github.com/nathanl/markov) Brought to you by DockYard DockYard i...

11: He's not a cyborg

Mike Binns talks about the initial release of his library Flame On! for generating flame graphs, and Brooklin Myers shares his experience building out the forthcoming DockYard Academy. Things Mentioned Flame On (https://hex.pm/packages/flame_on) library Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy, user experience, design, and full stack...

10: Safe, readable code

Things Mentioned safe_code (https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/safe_code) Beacon CMS (https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon) coboltoelixir (https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/cobol_to_elixir) LiveBook (https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook) Remote Product Development: How to Review Code Remotely (https://dockyard.com/blog/2020/05/04/remote-product-development-how-to-review-code-remotely) Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web ap...

9: Beacon, Tailwind, and Credo, oh my!

Things Mentioned Beacon CMS (https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon) Tailwind CSS (https://tailwindcss.com) LiveView (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view) Credo (https://github.com/rrrene/credo) Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services in strategy, user experience, design, and full stack engineering. Learn more about DockYard's se...

8: Feature flags and time complexity

Things Mentioned FunWithFlags (https://hexdocs.pm/fun_with_flags/FunWithFlags.html) Launch Darkly (https://launchdarkly.com) Big-O time complexity gist (https://gist.github.com/PJUllrich/4cd3d8e2e8c9170b560e5a501c13c9f3) Metaprogramming Elixir (https://pragprog.com/titles/cmelixir/metaprogramming-elixir/) Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our firm provides exceptional professional services...

7: GraphQL with Ben Wilson

Things Mentioned GraphQL (https://graphql.org) Absinthe (https://absinthe-graphql.org) CargoSense (https://www.cargosense.com) Phoenix LiveView (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/Phoenix.LiveView.html) Absinthe Subscriptions (https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/subscriptions.html) Erlang persistent_term (https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/persistent_term.html) Brought to you by DockYard DockYard is a digital product agency offering custom software, mobile, and web application development consulting. Our ...

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