68: Rust and Elixir with Nik Begley
Oct 12, 2021•41 min
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Episode description
We talk with Niklas Begley about his Doctave service and the problems it's solving. From there we cover why they use Rust for a key piece of the service and how Elixir fits in. We cover tools like Rustler for integrating Elixir and Rust smoothly. We talk about business drivers, Nik's experience building a SaaS product using Elixir and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/68
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/hauleth/mix_unused – Compile errors formatted to be machine readable to make it viewable directly in GitHub Code Scanning or GitLab Code Quality
- https://github.com/almightycouch/gitgud – GitHub-like self hosted project written in Elixir
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4471#issuecomment-931828623 – Phoenix 1.6.0 made an auth change with a bigger impact than was initially expected.
- https://www.tokens24.com/cryptopedia/mining/asic-mining-hashing-algorithm – ASIC hashing
- https://www.password-hashing.net/argon2-specs.pdf – Argon2 is a 'Memory Hard' hashing algorithm
- https://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/adding-tailwind-css-to-phoenix – Pragmatic Studio (Mike Clark) updated their guide on adding TailwindCSS for Phoenix 1.6
- https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1444664945396879361 – Gleam gets its own package manager
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com
Discussion Resources
- https://blog.doctave.com/2021/08/19/using-rust-with-elixir-for-code-reuse-and-performance.html
- https://www.doctave.com
- https://github.com/Doctave/doctave
- https://github.com/Doctave/doctave-markdown
- https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3
- https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif
- https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/
- https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/techdocs-overview
- https://ziglang.org/
- https://mermaid-js.github.io/
- https://hex.pm/packages/rustler
- http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl_nif.html
- https://alpinejs.dev/
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/NiklasBegley – on Twitter
- https://github.com/begleynk/ – on Github
- https://www.doctave.com – Doctave website
- nik@doctave.com
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
- Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
- Cade Ward - @cadebward
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