January 05, 2021

29: Running Jobs using Oban with Parker Selbert

47 minutes

We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator of the job processing library Oban. He shares the benefits of using Postgres as the data store over more common choices like Redis. Oban also offers a paid "pro" level and Parker explains how a paid feature set is provided for the OpenSource library. He helps us understand the differences between pro and free as well. We talk about how the BEAM's concurrency and processes enable powerful features in a job processing library that you won't easily find in alternatives. He also shares a glimpse of what's coming in the future for the library and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29

Elixir Community News

https://hotwire.dev/ – Ruby on Rails project launched Hotwire, a LiveView-like project for pushing HTML to the client

https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1341476828314263552 – Chris McCord expressed the benefits of the LiveView approach well here.

https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1342130938021629953 – Gleam projects can apply the Hotwire approach as it is backend agnostic

https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html – React JS server rendered components

https://youtu.be/TQQPAU21ZUw – Video explaining React JS server components

https://github.com/kentaro/mix_tasks_upload_hotswap – Tool to speed IoT development iterations

https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1343822451285716992 – Connor Rigby's similar approach

https://getoban.pro/ – Oban Pro website updated

https://elixirforum.com/t/one-click-phoenix-deployments/36473 – Wojtek Mach created an example Phoenix app with one-click deployments to different cloud services

https://github.com/wojtekmach/phoenix_example – Github project with deployment examples

https://mazes.angelika.me/ – LiveView maze generator created by Angelika Tyborska

https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes – Source code for maze generator

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

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/sorentwo/oban

https://getoban.pro/

https://dscout.com/

https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro

https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/

https://elixirforum.com/

https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html

https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/

Guest Information

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

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

https://sorentwo.com/ – Blog

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