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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67: Building a Healthy Community
October 5th, 2021 | 40 mins 28 secs
We talk about ways we can all contribute to building a healthy Elixir community. The Elixir community is a welcoming, encouraging and helpful place and we want to help keep it that way! We talk about common problems facing maintainers,
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66: Tracing Production with Kai Wern Choong
September 28th, 2021 | 39 mins 25 secs
We talk with Kai Wern Choong about his experience with tracing performance problems in production. We talk about what “tracing” means in a BEAM system, available tools like recon, great resources for learning how the tools work and general approaches f...
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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...