Thinking Elixir Podcast

41: Secure IoT Systems using Ockam with Mrinal Wadhwa

March 30th, 2021 | 57 mins 13 secs

We talk with Mrinal Wadhwa about Ockam.io, the project and the company. They are taking on the ambitious goal of building an open protocol through Elixir and Rust libraries to enable secure and trusted IoT platforms.

40: Mental Models for Elixir and LiveView

March 23rd, 2021 | 40 mins 58 secs

We talk about the mental models we use for writing our Elixir code and for thinking about our Elixir systems (starting at 5:46). We cover transformations, plug, and Mark's "Workshop Model" (starting at 23:45). We also talk about LiveView,

39: Mix Install and ExDocs for Erlang with Wojtek Mach

March 16th, 2021 | 38 mins 25 secs

Wojtek Mach returns and talks about the new Mix.install/2 feature coming in Elixir 1.12. We learn about some other features coming that will help script authors. We talk about OTP 24 and when we can expect 1.12 to be released,

38: Maintainable Elixir with Saša Jurić

March 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 12 mins

Saša Jurić shares how the team at Very Big Things is building maintainable Elixir code. This ranges from the development processes to code design and organization. He takes some "radical" positions and challenges conventions on a mission to find what a...

37: The Lambda Days Conference and Elixir

March 2nd, 2021 | 50 mins 48 secs

After covering the news, we share a live recording of the show from the Lambda Days conference. It was a lot of fun! We covered topics like learning and teaching Elixir, functional programming, strengths of Elixir over Erlang, the developer tooling,

36: Using LiveView and Hooks with Alex Minette

February 23rd, 2021 | 42 mins 19 secs

Alexandre Minette shares his adventures with LiveView as he builds a personal finance tracking application. We cover his use of hooks to integrate Javascript libraries that give him the UX he wants. He shares some tips and resources for finding Javascr...

35: X-Plane's Elixir MMO with Tyler Young

February 16th, 2021 | 41 mins 24 secs

Tyler Young from X-Plane talks with us about how he added a new MMO feature to the popular flight simulator using Elixir. He shares some behind the scenes information on how it was created and how it’s been working in production.

34: José Valim reveals Project Nx

February 9th, 2021 | 1 hr 15 mins

José Valim visits and finally publicly reveals what Project Nx is! He and others have been working on it for 3 months and he's finally ready to unveil it. José will speak more about it at the LambdaDays conference,

33: Postgres PubSub and Elixir with Allen Wyma

February 2nd, 2021 | 45 mins 11 secs

We talk with Allen Wyma about a Postgres PubSub feature and how it plays nice with Elixir. We dispel the idea that you should always use Phoenix PubSub just because it's there and we cover the value of learning what's built-in to tools like the postgre...

32: Circuit Breaker and Elixir Patterns with Allan MacGregor

January 26th, 2021 | 44 mins 16 secs

We talk with Allan MacGregor about implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern in Elixir and compare that to just using a job library. We get into a fun discussion about design patterns in Elixir and designing for failure.

31: Crawling the Web using Elixir with Oleg Tarasenko and Tze Yiing

January 19th, 2021 | 50 mins 33 secs

We talk with Oleg Tarasenko and Tze Yiing about crawling the web using Elixir. Oleg created the crawly project to help solve this problem and Tze Yiing joined him as a contributor and maintainer. We cover how Elixir is well suited to orchestrate crawli...

30: Mutation Testing using Muzak with Devon Estes

January 12th, 2021 | 58 mins 49 secs

We talk with Devon Estes, the creator of a new Elixir mutation testing library called Muzak. Devon joins us to explain what mutation testing is and how it can help development teams in organizations move faster and with greater confidence.

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