August 09, 2022

111: Deploying a PR for Review

40 minutes

Ever wanted to deploy a PR to a temporary server for show-and-tell, QA testing, or to get feedback on it? Jason Axelson joins us to share how he did that on Render.com. We explore how it can be done on other platforms like Fly.io as well. We talk about how this ability benefits teams and companies. We dig into how setting up a seeded DB for the code isolates data changes but also makes it easier for people to test the code with multiple data scenarios. Turns out doing this may be easier than I thought!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/111

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/tree/v1.14.0-rc.0 – Elixir 1.14.0-rc.0 was tagged. This begins the sequence of Release Candidates leading up to the final 1.14 release.

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.14.0-rc.0/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.14.0-rc.0 Changelog

https://twitter.com/michalmuskala/status/1554455230846119937

https://github.com/WhatsApp/eqwalizer – WhatsApp's newly open sourced type-checker for Erlang

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/07/27/developer-tools/programming-languages-endorsed-for-server-side-use-at-meta/ – Outlines which languages are approved for use in Facebook/Meta.

https://twitter.com/polvalente/status/1552176607045029889 – Elixir gRPC project released v0.5.0. Includes all commits since v0.5.0-beta.1 in mid 2020.

https://github.com/elixir-grpc/grpc/releases/tag/v0.5.0

https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/07/26/what-to-expect-from-the-dockyard-academy-q-a-with-instructor-brooklin-myers – Update on the DockYard Academy - a 90-day, online Elixir bootcamp

https://github.com/DockYard-Academy/beta_curriculum – DockYard Academy's beta curriculum

https://elixirstatus.com/p/GpNe2-intellij-elixir-v1320 – IntelliJ Elixir v13.2.0

https://github.com/superfly/litefs – LiteFS is a FUSE-based file system for replicating SQLite databases across a cluster of machines

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/101 – Our interview with Ben Johnson about SQLite and Litestream

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://felt.com/

https://felt.com/careers

https://elixirforum.com/

https://github.com/elixir-lsp/elixir-ls

https://github.com/boydm/scenic

https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter/status/1531757674236243968 – Button to deploy a PR branch for easy review.

https://render.com/docs/preview-environments#automatic-expiration – Render documentation about Preview Environment and Automatic Expiration

https://github.com/superfly/fly-pr-review-apps – Ability to do PR reviews on Fly.io using Github Actions

https://render.com/docs/infrastructure-as-code – Render docs for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

https://render.com/docs/preview-environments – Render docs for Preview Environments

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/bostonvaulter – on Twitter

https://github.com/axelson/ – on Github

https://jasonaxelson.com/ – Blog

Find us online

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward