November 22, 2022

126: Working at a Software Agency with the Wizards

1 hour

As software developers, there are many different types of companies we can work at. We met up with the Elixir Wizards crew to learn more about working at a Software Agency like SmartLogic. We compare what this is like vs working at a product company. Of course, we take the opportunity to learn more about Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford, their journeys to Elixir and the work they are doing now. Sundi shares how becoming an Engineering Manager presented new growth opportunities and Owen goes deeper on the ETL system he's creating to migrate an MSSQL DB to Postgres and how gets to play with Broadway in the process.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/126

Elixir Community News

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbmaPrkGCAzFMC_FYZUkmSr – Final batch of ElixirConf US 2022 videos were released!

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/github-actions-for-elixir-ci/ – CI for Elixir projects using Github Actions and CD to auto-deploying on Fly.io

https://nathanwillson.com/blog/posts/2022-11-11-partitioned_tests/ – Nathan Wilson showed how to partition CI tests over more runners for faster overall time.

https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1591604043780358144 – Nathan Wilson documented how dead-view controllers, pages, and views were restructured.

https://fly.io/phoenix-files/opentelemetry-and-the-infamous-n-plus-1/ – Alex Koutmos wrote a guide and sample project showing how to use OpenTelemetry with Elixir and visualize the data in Grafana.

https://elixirforum.com/t/visual-font-for-diagramming-elixir/51477 – Unique Elixir font created that renders as graphics of data structures.

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

Discussion Resources

https://smartlogic.io/

https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/

https://smartlogic.io/about/team

https://www.cava.com/

https://smartlogic.io/software-development/

https://elixir-broadway.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/tds

https://hex.pm/packages/webauthn_live_component

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbriAecqUk – Owen's ElixirConf talk about his WebAuthnLiveComponent

https://smartlogic.io/about/jobs

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/smartlogic – SmartLogic on Twitter

https://twitter.com/owenbickford – Owen on Twitter

https://twitter.com/sundikhin – Sundi on Twitter

https://github.com/smartlogic/ – SmartLogic on Github

https://github.com/type1fool/ – Owen Bickford on Github

https://github.com/liveshowy/webauthn_live_component

https://www.owencode.com/ – Owen's blog

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir

Email the show - [email protected]

Mark Ericksen - @brainlid

David Bernheisel - @bernheisel

Cade Ward - @cadebward