Episode Archive
233 episodes of Thinking Elixir Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 17th, 2020.
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65: Meet Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev
September 21st, 2021 | 47 mins 31 secs
We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language!
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64: OTP Certificate Woes with Bram Verburg
September 14th, 2021 | 42 mins 52 secs
We talk with Bram Verburg about an important root certificate expiring at the end of September and how this impacts your Elixir and Erlang projects! Bram helps explain where this IS and IS NOT a problem. He also explains the different update options av...
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63: SMS Texting in Nerves with Peter Ullrich
September 7th, 2021 | 43 mins 33 secs
We talk with Peter Ullrich about his experience sending SMS messages from a Raspberry Pi Zero using Nerves. We cover what went well, what didn’t and get a glimpse into the current state of Nerves for a newbie when dealing with hardware.
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62: Chris McCord joins Fly.io and Phoenix 1.6
August 31st, 2021 | 56 mins 57 secs
We talk with Chris McCord about his recent announcement that he’s moved to work at Fly.io! We cover what this means for the Phoenix project and ongoing Phoenix development work. He shares why he’s excited about the Fly platform which includes how it re...
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61: Elixir's Recent Brex-it
August 24th, 2021 | 30 mins 32 secs
We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally.
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60: Compile Faster with Marc-André Lafortune
August 17th, 2021 | 43 mins 2 secs
We talk with Marc-André Lafortune about reducing Elixir project compile times. On larger projects, when a single file like a view template is changed and over 100 files get recompiled, there is something wrong.
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59: How Elixir Came to Spotify with Joel Kemp
August 10th, 2021 | 43 mins 5 secs
We talk with Joel Kemp about his experience introducing Elixir at Spotify. We learn about the concurrency problems he had with the default stack and how that was solved with the BEAM. We talk about the inertia that larger companies have that make intro...
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58: News and Livebook for Business Intelligence
August 3rd, 2021 | 21 mins 25 secs
After covering the news we catch up on what Elixir things we've been thinking about and working on. Mark brings up using Livebook as a Business Intelligence tool for doing analysis of a running application's data.
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57: Scaling Live Chat with Cade Ward
July 27th, 2021 | 57 mins 19 secs
We sat down with co-host Cade Ward to hear how he and his team tackled a problem of hosting live web chats with crowds of 120K+ users coming together for live events. On the show, we have talked with a couple guests with similar bursting high-load situ...
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56: Fly-ing Elixir Close to Users with Kurt Mackey
July 13th, 2021 | 59 mins 32 secs
We talk with Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly.io, about what makes the Fly platform unique and why hosting Elixir applications there makes a lot of sense. They started out looking to make a better CDN for developers and this pushed them to try deploying Ful...
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55: Learning from Failure with Philipp Schmieder
July 6th, 2021 | 37 mins 23 secs
We talk with Philipp Schmieder about his experience creating a LiveView application for a political party’s convention and then watching the app blow up. We learn how he recovered, why it failed, and how he fixed it going forward.
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54: AST Parsing using Sourceror with Lucas San Román
June 29th, 2021 | 53 mins 39 secs
We talk with Lucas San Román about his library Sourceror and how it was created to solve some AST parsing limitations. The Elixir parser discards code comments, so it can’t be used for re-writing Elixir code when refactoring.