Thinking Elixir Podcast

44: Elixir Data Types with Sasha Fonseca

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We talk with Sasha Fonseca about Elixir's data types behind the scenes. We learn about binary leaks, discuss memory usage, performance considerations, what boxed values are and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/44

Elixir Community News

  • https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1380124787318665218 – Sean Moriarity released a new library built on NX called Axon
  • https://dockyard.com/blog/2021/04/08/up-and-running-nx – Sean's guest blog writing and has a post on the Dockyard blog about getting started with Nx.
  • https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/125 – ElixirLS 0.7.0 released
  • https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.14.0 – Erlang LS 0.14.0 released
  • https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-testing-b32ac0604b99 – Sasa Juric concluded his "Maintainable Elixir" blog series with a post on Testing
  • https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/038-maintainable-elixir-with-sasa-juric/ – Previous interview with Sasa Juric
  • https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1379834109560819718 – Lumen project seeking help to implement ETS support and requested people contribute
  • https://twitter.com/sprsmpl/status/1381810172474064899 – Hex.pm diffs now allow you to share links to specific lines
  • https://github.com/thoughtbot/bamboo – Bamboo v2.1.0 released adding interceptors
  • https://github.com/josevalim/nested-data-structure-traversal – Jose Valim requests developers from all programming languages to contribute solutions to a problem in different programming languages. Great just to look over.
  • https://dashbit.co/blog/announcing-livebook – LiveBook Announced
  • https://youtu.be/RKvqc-UEe34 – Demonstration and explanation video
  • https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook – Livebook github project

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

    Discussion Resources

    • https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-memory-structure/
    • https://www.talkdesk.com/
    • https://elm-lang.org/
    • http://erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html
    • http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/erl_ext_dist.html
    • https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/616
    • https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
    • http://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/
    • https://github.com/kvakvs/beam-wisdoms
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QUVpYXuR80
    • https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
    • http://ferd.github.io/recon/recon.html
    • https://github.com/devonestes/fast-elixir
    • https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/ – Free Pattern Matching course covers working with these data types

      • Guest Information

      • https://twitter.com/SashaSFM – on Twitter
      • https://github.com/sashaafm/ – on Github
      • https://foofoobar.me – Blog

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