About the show
The Thinking Elixir podcast is a weekly show where we talk about the Elixir programming language and the community around it. We cover news and interview guests to learn more about projects and developments in the community.
Whether you are already experienced with Elixir or just exploring the language, this show is created with you in mind. We discuss community news, Functional Programming, transitioning from OOP, coding conventions, and more.
Guests visit the show to help challenge our assumptions, learn about new developments and grow in the process.
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Episodes
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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!
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87: Reviewing Elixir with José Valim - Part 2
February 22nd, 2022 | 1 hr 6 mins
anniversary, code formatter, elixir, testing, unicode
José Valim returns for part 2 of 5 in the countdown to Elixir's 10 year anniversary! Part 2 covers releases 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6. Learned some great tips and even touched on upcoming features!
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86: SavvyCal and Indie SaaS with Derrick Reimer
February 15th, 2022 | 50 mins 35 secs
calendar, elixir, indie, saas, venture capital
Derrick Reimer talks about Savvycal and how it’s built in Elixir. We talk about how simplicity and being nimble are competitive advantages. He shares what it’s like being an indie SaaS developer, what that means, and more!