March 14, 2023

142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production

53 minutes

Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02 – Phoenix 1.7.1 released with enhancement to phx.new

https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62 – Diff for the sizable project changes as hero_icons are added

https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ – Multi-letter uppercase sigils being added to Elixir

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448 – Expanded sigil support already merged in

https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922 – German Velasco's collection of short videos about Phoenix 1.7

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8 – YouTube playlist of the short videos

https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816 – Tip from German on using phx-mounted binding to do initial animations with JS transitions

https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes – A mix task was created to help projects migrate to verified routes by the people at Fullstack Phoenix.

https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd – Gist for mix task convert_to_verified_routes.ex

https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473 – Quick bash script to launch a LiveBook connected to your Fly instance

https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/ – Flowbite has TailwindCSS styled components and just added a “getting started with Phoenix” guide.

https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722 – All LiveView Native SwiftUI views are complete. On to Modifiers

https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 – Github checklist of SwiftUI views

https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1 – OTP 26 RC 1 bring improvements

https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367 – Dialyzer gets an --incremental

https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/ – Gleam v0.27 released

https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register – CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm on Fri, 12 May 202 - one day conference and early bird tickets are on sale now

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

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion

https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976

https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion – Started as a 2021 Spawnfest entry that didn't complete

https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811 – Difference from FlameOn Twitter discussion

https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560 – Comment about immutable filesystems

https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html

https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html

https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html

https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on

https://github.com/strace/strace

https://strace.io/

https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing

https://github.com/ferd/recon/

https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms

https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms

https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html

https://hex.pm/packages/xprof

https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/

https://ebpf.io/

https://userinyerface.com/

https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/di4naO – on Twitter

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

https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na – on Fediverse

https://www.softwaremaxims.com/ – Blog

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