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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181: FLAME with Chris McCord
December 19th, 2023 | 1 hr 11 mins
aws, elixir, flame, lambda, serverless
Dive into the Elixir ecosystem's latest innovation: Chris McCord's FLAME for the Phoenix Framework—is it a game-changer in serverless computing? We discuss its unique approach, scalability, how it compares to job queues, and much more!
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180: Thinking Elixir News
December 12th, 2023 | 19 mins 57 secs
elixir, liveview, news
What's behind Chis McCord's latest tease? Explore José Valim's proposed Elixir addition, Supabase's "libcluster_postgres" for Elixir node discovery, and see how others tackle this year's Advent of Code with tools and Livebooks, and more!
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179: Future of AI with Elixir?
November 28th, 2023 | 33 mins 50 secs
ai, elixir, openai, opensource, proprietary, risks
How does the AI revolution affect Elixir devs? We discuss the risks of proprietary AI, the power of self-hosted open-source models with Elixir, the strategic benefits they bring, why Elixir may be really well positioned, and more!
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178: Safe Ecto Migrations and AI Updates
November 21st, 2023 | 29 mins 54 secs
ai, ecto, elixir, langchain, migrations
Updates on Safe Ecto Migrations, the importance of OpenSource AI models and the latest on Elixir's LangChain library.
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177: Thinking Elixir News
November 14th, 2023 | 13 mins
bandit, discord, elixir, livebook, news
News delves into Discord scaling with Elixir, Oban's Phoenix.PubSub update, a peek at LiveView Native tutorials for mobile dev, Livebook's Bandit endorsement, and more!
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176: Thinking Elixir News
November 7th, 2023 | 20 mins 47 secs
1.16-rc.0, elixir, news, release candidate
Covering the Elixir v1.16.0-rc.0 release's compiler improvements and enhanced docs, including anti-patterns. Discover updates on Lexical LS, FlameOn, OTP's potential for built-in JSON support, and latest on LiveView Native, and more!
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175: Thinking Elixir News
October 31st, 2023 | 20 mins 11 secs
bandit, elixir, news, webserver
News includes the major release of Bandit 1.0, upcoming dev experience improvements in Elixir v1.16, comparisons of Language Server alternatives, integration of Mistral with Bumblebee and the introduction of Permit – an authorization library for Phoenix apps, and more!
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174: DockYard's BeaconCMS
October 24th, 2023 | 54 mins 14 secs
beacon, cms, elixir, heex, wordpress
Discover the new OpenSource CMS in the Elixir community! We chat with Leandro Pereira about Beacon, a Phoenix LiveView project with features to rival Wordpress. Includes Admin and HEEx template editor for non-developers.
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173: Web App Security Best Practices and Sobelow
October 17th, 2023 | 47 mins 26 secs
best practices, elixir, security, sobelow
We're joined by Michael Lubas of Paraxial.io as we delve into cybersecurity! We talk about the EEF's Web Application Security Best Practices guide. We show Sobelow some deserved love as it helps all Elixir web apps and much more!
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172: Thinking Elixir News
October 10th, 2023 | 12 mins 28 secs
elixir, news
Latest in Elixir, from advances in Machine Learning and new Phoenix LiveView features, to a serverless to Elixir transition story that's making waves. Plus, get insights on ElixirConf 2023 and the upcoming CodeBEAM America 2024 and more!
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171: Thinking Elixir News
October 3rd, 2023 | 13 mins 42 secs
elixir, news
Featuring José's insights on Elixir's "strong arrows", updates on LiveView 0.20.0, Livebook's upcoming "Authentication" feature. Plus, 404 pages tips for LiveView, new ElixirConf videos, the SpawnFest contest, and more!
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170: Thinking Elixir News
September 26th, 2023 | 20 mins 13 secs
elixir, news, opensource, postgres, zig
ElixirConf 2023 keynote videos released, BEAM web security guide, a new Bun integration library for Phoenix, a LangChain library for Elixir projects, general OpenSource community happenings, and more!