March 12, 2024

193: Operational Elixir: Observing the Midsize Madness

55 minutes

In this engaging third episode of our series, Dave Lucia returns to delve into the various systems that support small and medium-sized teams and companies for their Elixir systems. Dave shares insights gained from a range of situations including working at startups on up to Series C and D sized companies, with a particular focus on the critical role of observability tools. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dave discusses how these tools can greatly enhance a team's ability to monitor and troubleshoot applications, ensuring high performance and reliability. Tune in for a comprehensive look at the essential systems and tools that can make a tangible difference in the day-to-day operations of Elixir-powered organizations, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/193

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1762921819776934146 – José Valim has teased a new feature for Elixir 1.17 which may include a mix test flag --breakpoints for debugging failed tests.

https://gleam.run/news/gleam-version-1/ – Gleam v1.0 has been released, marking the language's stability and readiness for production with a commitment to maintain backwards compatibility.

https://github.com/underjord/entrace – Lars Wikman shared his work on the Entrace tracing project, offering easier tracing support to applications.

https://github.com/underjord/entrace_live_dashboard – Entrac LiveDashboard was announced by Lars Wikman to add a tracing page to the LiveDashboard plugin.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGxJUadP1CaaU6EnTwe7Hv76RnBLIiqT6SJLIBvncHcEzGRg/viewform – The Call for Proposals for talks at ElixirConfUS is open, including information to book hotel rooms for the event taking place from August 28-30, 2024.

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

Discussion Resources

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about RabbitMQ and Commanded

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/97 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Avro and Elixir

https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/129 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Time series data with Timescale DB

https://Sentry.io

https://www.servicenow.com/products/observability.html – Observability tool formerly knowns as LightStep

https://www.honeycomb.io/

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/

https://github.com/open-telemetry

https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/

https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry

https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry_exporter

https://davelucia.com/ – Dave's personal blog

https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus

https://grafana.com/

https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/

https://fly.io/docs/reference/metrics/

https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics

https://amplitude.com/

Custom LiveView admin pages for dashboards

https://postmarkapp.com/

https://sendgrid.com/en-us

https://milkroad.com/ – A newsletter company that Dave Lucia worked at.

https://www.beehiiv.com/ – Newsletters as a service company

https://ahrefs.com/ – Tracking the back links from other sites to yours for SEO

https://search.google.com/search-console/about

https://github.com/dbernheisel/phoenix_seo

https://tvlabs.ai/ – Where Dave Lucia is working now.

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/davydog187 – on Twitter

https://github.com/davydog187/ – on Github

https://davelucia.com – Blog

https://tvlabs.ai – TVLabs company where he works now.

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