March 09, 2021

38: Maintainable Elixir with Saša Jurić

1 hour 12 minutes

Saša Jurić shares how the team at Very Big Things is building maintainable Elixir code. This ranges from the development processes to code design and organization. He takes some "radical" positions and challenges conventions on a mission to find what actually works well. We talk about his library Boundary and how it helps enforce API designs. He talks about the "Junk Drawer Pattern" and how code analysis helps identify lines of separation for refactoring. A thought provoking and fun discussion!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/38

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1366417827528396803 – Jose Valim is stepping down in his role as Board Director of the The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1366427218306564096 – Jose Valim calls out to the Erlang community for any developers who are interested in Machine Learning

https://pragprog.com//titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/ – A new Phoenix LiveView book is coming out and is currently in a beta release

https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1365031826813825033 – Chris McCord shared his perspective around the general community excitement with LiveView

https://blog.aeternity.com/erlscripten-92c815786987 – The company https://aeternity.com released a project called "Erlscripten"

https://seanmoriarity.com/ – Follow Sean Moriarity's blog for his "Nx Tip of the Week" series

https://www.erlang.org/news/144 – OTP 24 will release candidates have started

https://hex.pm/packages/finch – Finch HTTP library

https://twitter.com/chriskeathley/status/1364692787032113153 – Chris Keathley posted graphics showing the before and after performance charts from it's use at BleacherReport

https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/3566 – Ecto.Multi.inspect/2,3 support being added to Ecto

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1349/files – Fix for compiler warnings on live_component usage

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f – Discord announced why they were moving away from Go to Rust

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

Discussion Resources

https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition – Elixir in Action 2nd Edition book

https://verybigthings.com/

https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-development-process-205ee257c109

https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-core-and-the-interface-c267f0da43

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete

https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670

https://github.com/rrrene/credo

https://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/lib/credo/check/readability/strict_module_layout.ex

https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary

https://github.com/sasa1977/ci

https://elixirforum.com/

Guest Information

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

https://github.com/sasa1977/ – on Github

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

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