142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production

Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02 – Phoenix 1.7.1 released with enhancement to phx.new
• https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62 – Diff for the sizable project changes as hero_icons are added
• https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ – Multi-letter uppercase sigils being added to Elixir
• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448 – Expanded sigil support already merged in
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922 – German Velasco's collection of short videos about Phoenix 1.7
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8 – YouTube playlist of the short videos
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816 – Tip from German on using phx-mounted binding to do initial animations with JS transitions
• https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes – A mix task was created to help projects migrate to verified routes by the people at Fullstack Phoenix.
• https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd – Gist for mix task convert_to_verified_routes.ex
• https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473 – Quick bash script to launch a LiveBook connected to your Fly instance
• https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/ – Flowbite has TailwindCSS styled components and just added a “getting started with Phoenix” guide.
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722 – All LiveView Native SwiftUI views are complete. On to Modifiers
• https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 – Github checklist of SwiftUI views
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1 – OTP 26 RC 1 bring improvements
• https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367 – Dialyzer gets an --incremental
• https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/ – Gleam v0.27 released
• https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register – CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm on Fri, 12 May 202 - one day conference and early bird tickets are on sale now

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion
• https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976
• https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion – Started as a 2021 Spawnfest entry that didn't complete
• https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811 – Difference from FlameOn Twitter discussion
• https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560 – Comment about immutable filesystems
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html
• https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on
• https://github.com/strace/strace
• https://strace.io/
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing
• https://github.com/ferd/recon/
• https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms
• https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms
• https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html
• https://hex.pm/packages/xprof
• https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/
• https://ebpf.io/
• https://userinyerface.com/
• https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/

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