Thinking Elixir Podcast

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.

96: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 4

April 26th, 2022  |  1 hr 18 mins

configuration, elixir, erlang, exceptions, otp, structs

José Valim in part 4 of 5 as we countdown to Elixir's 10 year anniversary! We cover 1.10, 1.11, and 1.12. Insights into Erlang’s design and history and how that impacts Elixir along with teases of upcoming things in 1.14!

95: Rustler Precompiled with Philip Sampaio

April 19th, 2022  |  38 mins 54 secs

ci, cross-platform, libraries, precompile, rust, rustler

Philip Sampaio explains the Rustler Precompiled project and how its easier to use Rust libraries for NIFs in Elixir. We discuss what it means for internal company projects, libraries and much more!

94: Benchee and OpenSource with Tobias Pfeiffer

April 12th, 2022  |  1 hr 22 secs

benchmark, elixir, performance

Tobias Pfeiffer talks about his popular performance benchmark tool Benchee. He explains why a single bug fix took so long, caused so much pain, and we discuss how many of us deal with similar challenges.

93: Preventing Service Abuse with Michael Lubas

April 5th, 2022  |  52 mins 37 secs

abuse, credit card fraud, elixir, plug_attack, security

We talk with Michael Lubas about steps we can take to protect our Phoenix applications from common automated bot attacks.

92: Temple with Mitchell Hanberg

March 29th, 2022  |  48 mins 19 secs

browsers, elixir, templates, testing, wallaby

Mitchell Hanberg talks about his Temple library for creating alternate Phoenix markup templates and the Wallaby browser testing project that he now maintains.

91: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 3

March 22nd, 2022  |  59 mins 20 secs

anniversary, elixir, erlang, inspect, protocols, releases

José Valim returns to continue with part 3 of our 5 part series as we count down to the 10 year anniversary. We thought this would be a short episode but found there was a lot to talk about and learn!