Thinking Elixir Podcast

Episode Archive

Episode Archive

233 episodes of Thinking Elixir Podcast since the first episode, which aired on June 17th, 2020.

  • 53: SOLID Elixir with Ilya Averyanov

    June 22nd, 2021  |  35 mins 49 secs

    We talk with Ilya Averyanov about how the SOLID principles, typically associated with OOP, can apply to Elixir. We talk about Ilya's blog post where he applied these principles to his Github project and how that helped in PR discussions.

  • 52: IOList and Postgres with Nathan Long

    June 15th, 2021  |  49 mins 37 secs

    We take a deeper dive with Nathan Long into IOLists in Elixir. We cover what they are, how they work, the power they have when concatenating strings, and how they are used in Phoenix and Logger. We even talk about improper lists and why they exist.

  • 51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas

    June 8th, 2021  |  41 mins 6 secs

    We talk with Alex Loukissas about using Phoenix sockets to provide live auction systems. We comment on the situation of flash-mob-like users coming to a system and needing to handle high traffic volumes for shorter durations.

  • 50: Exercism.io and Elixir with Angelika Tyborska

    June 1st, 2021  |  54 mins 26 secs

    We talk with Angelika Tyborska about the history of exercism.io, her involvement, the issues addressed in v2 and what's new and cool in the soon to be released v3. We cover the Elixir track, her work as a maintainer,

  • 49: Pushing for Modularity with Maciej Kaszubowski

    May 25th, 2021  |  44 mins 37 secs

    Maciej Kaszubowski returns to talk about how read models can help modularize our systems. There is a focus on background job systems and how they fit in our modular designs. We cover push vs pull based systems and which is more maintainable.

  • 48: Ecto Associations with Sheharyar Naseer

    May 18th, 2021  |  37 mins 21 secs

    We talk with Sheharyar Naseer about Ecto's feature "association defaults" and how they work. We learn how they even support defining a function that gets called during your changeset operations which can be used to ensure multi-tenancy IDs get populate...

  • 47: Crypto Trading in Elixir with Kamil Skowron

    May 11th, 2021  |  26 mins 50 secs

    We talk with Kamil Skowron about his Youtube channel that walks people through building a crypto-currency trading bot in Elixir. We learn how that led him to start a free online book sharing that content. He covers what people will learn from the proce...

  • 46: Livebook with Jonatan Kłosko

    May 4th, 2021  |  47 mins 57 secs

    We talk with Jonatan Kłosko, the coder behind Livebook, to learn how it works, how the collaborative feature was done, what you can do with it, what you shouldn't do with it, some unusual ways people are using it, and more!

  • 45: Junior Devs with Michał Buszkiewicz

    April 27th, 2021  |  42 mins 51 secs

    We talk with Michał Buszkiewicz about Junior Developers in the Elixir community. We share tips for Juniors both early in their careers but also more experienced developers coming new to Elixir. We talk about the University vs Bootcamp approaches and wh...

  • 44: Elixir Data Types with Sasha Fonseca

    April 20th, 2021  |  49 mins 16 secs

    We talk with Sasha Fonseca about Elixir's data types behind the scenes. We learn about binary leaks, discuss memory usage, performance considerations, what boxed values are and much more! - Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.

  • 43: Membrane with Marcin Lewandowski

    April 13th, 2021  |  1 hr 11 mins

    We talk with Marcin Lewandowski about Membrane Framework. We learn what it is, the project's goals, how people are using it and how it can solve the speed-to-market problem when streaming multimedia. We cover WebRTC, radio, industry challenges,

  • 42: LiveView Autocomplete and Blogging with Velina Petrova

    April 6th, 2021  |  51 mins 52 secs

    We talk with Velina Petrova about a blog post she wrote showing how a "designer dreamed up" feature was delivered using LiveView and Alpine.js. She shares how she added the LiveView feature to a non-LiveView page demonstrating a great strategy for slow...