Thinking Elixir Podcast

195: Migrating from Next.js to Phoenix

March 26th, 2024  |  52 mins 44 secs

elixir, news, nextjs, operational, phoenix, simplicity, vercel

In this episode, Ben Reinhart discusses his shift from Next.js and Vercel to ElixirLang, Phoenix, and Fly.io, highlighting how Elixir's simplicity and features streamlined his AI product's operations at AxFlow.

167: Customizing mix phx.new?

September 5th, 2023  |  52 mins 45 secs

elixir, generators, phoenix

Ever thought of customizing mix phx.new? Tune in to our latest episode with Victor Björklund as we explore ways to customize Phoenix project generators! We also discuss tweaking generators for existing projects & more!

152: Rust and Elixir Play Great Together

May 23rd, 2023  |  50 mins 15 secs

developer experience, dx, elixir, liveview, nif, phoenix, rust, rustler

Rustler gives Elixir easy access to Rust and community libraries. We talk with Jason Stiebs about being a Phoenix Core Team Member, making debugging a crashing LiveView nicer, how to leverage Rust when we need it, and more!

140: Thinking Elixir News

February 28th, 2023  |  13 mins 28 secs

elixir, liveview native, logger, news, phoenix, release candidate

Progress in LiveView Native, Livebook integration with Hugging Face, Andrea Leopardi concludes his series of Protohacker videos, new Phoenix 1.7.0 RCs 3 & 4, Elixir and Erlang loggers unified after 3.5 years, and more!

137: Upgrading to Phoenix 1.7

February 7th, 2023  |  36 mins 57 secs

backward compatible, elixir, phoenix, upgrade, verified routes

We share notes on upgrading our apps to Phoenix 1.7.0 and what it was like. We include tips and resources and talk about the backward compatibility of the project and what that means.

131: Start Securing Elixir and Phoenix

December 27th, 2022  |  38 mins 12 secs

elixir, phoenix, security, xss

We met up again with Michael Lubas to discuss some lesser known community security resources and helpful tips to get us started with securing our Elixir and Phoenix applications!

125: Elixir at the Royal Bank of Canada

November 15th, 2022  |  58 mins 56 secs

elixir, finance, liveview, performance, phoenix

Thanos Vassilakis explains how Elixir is used at @rbccm. We cover LiveView’s incredible performance, adoption, "scaling teams", and how vendor "body shops" are a limiting factor in Elixir being accepted.

119: NPM CLI Maintainer Moves to Phoenix and Rust

October 4th, 2022  |  51 mins 13 secs

elixir, live view, npm, phoenix, rust

Kat Marchán was the NPM CLI maintainer for 5 years before moving to Elixir, Phoenix and Rust. Kat started Banchan Art to address the exploitation of artists. Oh, and it’s written in Elixir and is OpenSource!

117: PhxLiveStorybook

September 20th, 2022  |  46 mins 43 secs

components, elixir, live view, phoenix, storybook, umbrella

A UI Storybook for Phoenix LiveView components? Christian Blavier joins to share what his team created and made OpenSource. What is it? It may end up in Phoenix so tune in!

99: Slipstream and Tree-Sitter with Michael Davis

May 17th, 2022  |  43 mins 49 secs

channels, elixir, parser, phoenix, syntax, tree-sitter, websockets