Thinking Elixir Podcast

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!

90: Elixir Cards with Tetiana Dushenkivska

March 15th, 2022  |  42 mins 19 secs

elixir, flashcards, learning, liveview, meetup

Tetiana Dushenkivska talks about how she created Elixir Cards and why. She shares how LiveView plays a role, how the flashcards can be used for both personal learning and fun competitions!

89: Reducing the Friction in Your Flow

March 8th, 2022  |  49 mins 3 secs

api, application design, clustering, distributed computing, elixir, friction, postgres, read replicas

We talk about the business value and personal happiness received when reducing the friction in our applications. It starts with the application design and LiveView plays a big role!

88: Phoenix Debug Toolbar and LiveView Forms with Michael Crumm

March 1st, 2022  |  53 mins 1 sec

debug toolbar, elixir, forms, liveview, phoenix, phoenix live dashboard

Michael Crumm talks about his new project PhoenixProfiler that helps profile performance, expose route info, show crash info and more. We also talk about his work to improve LiveView forms!