Thinking Elixir Podcast

108: Stack Overflow Survey Results 2022

July 19th, 2022  |  39 mins 50 secs

community, elixir, growth, most loved, stack overflow, survey

We talk about Elixir and Phoenix’s strong showing in the Stack Overflow Survey results! 💜💜💜 We discuss what it means, what we can learn from it, how it compares, ideas to help support and grow the community, and more!

107: Catching Up with Alex Koutmos

July 12th, 2022  |  56 mins 56 secs

book, elixir, email, learning, livebook, nerves, opensource

Alex Koutmos talks about some of his well known libraries like PromEx, but also lesser known ones like Doctor and MJML EEx. We talk about the Nerves Weather Station book and his new Livebook heavy Elixir Patterns book!

106: Coding Music Live in SonicPi with Sam Aaron

July 5th, 2022  |  1 hr 8 mins

elixir, erlang, music, performance, sonic pi

Sam Aaron explains how Sonic Pi can live code music performances, be used in education, and is moving more to Elixir! He plans to use Phoenix LiveView in the future to create distributed jamming sessions!

105: Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht

June 28th, 2022  |  55 mins 8 secs

analytics, elixir, google, opensource, plausible, privacy

Uku Taht shares how Plausible Analytics provides opensource analytics data that respects visitor's privacy. It’s a simple Phoenix app by a small team (3 people) that are delivering big things.

104: Exploring Our Data with Chris Grainger

June 21st, 2022  |  48 mins 54 secs

csv, data analysis, data frames, elixir, explorer, nx, patents, spreadsheet

Explorer lets us explore and manipulate two-dimensional data like we already do with DB tables, spreadsheets, CSV files, and more. It's a tool that “regular” Elixir devs can take advantage of today!

103: Vaxine.io and CRDT DBs with James Arthur

June 14th, 2022  |  54 mins 27 secs

antidote, crdt, database, distributed, elixir, vaxine

We learn about Vaxine.io, an Elixir layer built on top of a distributed CRDT-based Erlang DB called Antidote. We cover CRDTs, the CURE protocol, and what Vaxine brings to the party.

102: Machine Learning in Elixir with Sean Moriarity

June 7th, 2022  |  42 mins 12 secs

ai, axon, elixir, genetic algorithms, machine learning, nx

Sean Moriarity explains Machine Learning in the Elixir space. It's a fast developing area and Sean helps us follow the important points even if we aren't doing ML ourselves… because our teams may still need it.

101: Replicating SQLite using Litestream with Ben Johnson

May 31st, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins

backup, database, distributed, durability, elixir, replication, sqlite

Ben Johnson explains Litestream.io, his tool that replicates SQLite databases to remote servers and to backup locations like S3. We talk through using it with Phoenix applications and what that would mean.

100: 10 Years of Elixir with José Valim

May 24th, 2022  |  1 hr 31 mins

1.14, 2.0, concurrency, dashbit, elixir, functional, machine learning

José Valim talks about 10 years of Elixir! 🎂🎉 We cover v1.13, upcoming v1.14, far future v2.0 and much more! We talk about the story and growth of Dashbit and share appreciation for the community we are a part of!

99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis

May 17th, 2022  |  43 mins 49 secs

channels, elixir, parser, phoenix, syntax, tree-sitter, websockets

98: Elixir in the iOS App Store with Dominic Letz

May 10th, 2022  |  47 mins 26 secs

blockchain, cross platform, desktop, elixir, live view, mobile

97: Avro and Elixir with Dave Lucia

May 3rd, 2022  |  48 mins 36 secs

apache, avro, data lake, elixir, kafka, spark

Dave Lucia explains avro_ex, a library that helps Elixir hook into the JVM world of Kafka, Avro, Spark and data lakes. An overview of the tools and flow we may be asked to integrate our systems with.