July 13, 2021

56: Fly-ing Elixir Close to Users with Kurt Mackey

59 minutes

We talk with Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly.io, about what makes the Fly platform unique and why hosting Elixir applications there makes a lot of sense. They started out looking to make a better CDN for developers and this pushed them to try deploying Full Stack applications closer to users, not just the static assets! We learn about the tech behind the networking, how databases can be moved closer to users, and how LiveView is even more awesome when it is close to users. Kurt also shares what he sees as the future for databases as the industry continues to move into globally distributed applications.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/56

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11101 – Task.completed/1 function added

https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.2 – Elixir 1.12.2 minor release

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1511 – LV Lifecycle Hooks

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1515 – Add on_mount option to live_session

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1513 – New form_for/4

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4355 – Add mailer generator for swoosh

https://github.com/akoutmos/prom_ex/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – prom_ex library has 1.3.0 release adding Absinthe GraphQL plugin and dashboard

https://fly.io/blog/monitoring-your-fly-io-apps-with-prometheus/ – Using prom_ex on an Elixir project

https://github.com/wojtekmach/elixir-run – Wojtek Mach released a new project called "elixir-run"

https://github.com/nurturenature/elixir_actions#elixir-actions-for-github – Elixir Github Actions CI example repo

https://twitter.com/evadne/status/1412083538988613636 – Etso 0.1.6 was released adding "is_nil" query support

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

Discussion Resources

https://fly.io/

https://fly.io/docs/introduction/

https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/

https://www.compose.com/

https://twitter.com/QuinnyPig – Corey Quinn on Twitter

https://nats.io/

https://jamstack.org/

https://liveview-counter.fly.dev/

https://github.com/fly-apps/phoenix-liveview-cluster

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

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

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

https://www.wireguard.com/

https://tailscale.com/

https://fly.io/blog/globally-distributed-postgres/

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/

https://www.yugabyte.com/

https://www.citusdata.com/

https://fly.io/blog/

https://twitter.com/flydotio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)

Guest Information

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

https://github.com/mrkurt – on Github

https://fly.io/blog/ – Blog

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