July 28, 2020

6: Elixir at FontAwesome with Rob Madole

46 minutes

FontAwesome, the internet’s most popular icon toolkit, uses Elixir behind the scenes. We talk with Rob Madole to learn how they got there and Rob shares insights to what goes on behind-the-scenes. We cover how they teach Elixir to their team, Rob shares helpful resources, tips on giving good code reviews, pairing, how to find great talent, adding in OTP later, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/6

Elixir Community News

https://2020.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2020 Tickets On Sale – September 3-4.

https://github.com/subvisual/dictator – Dictator 1.0 released. Dictator is an authorization library that uses Plug

https://www.iotevolutionworld.com/newsroom/articles/446036-winners-the-2020-iot-evolution-product-the-year.htm – Nerves won IoT Product of the Year for NervesHub

https://dalgona.github.io/Serum/ – Serum 1.5 released. Serum is a static site generator written in Elixir

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

Discussion Resources

https://fontawesome.com/

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-5/ – FontAwesome 5 Kickstarter

https://twitter.com/robmadole/status/1278055974519988224 – Rob shared heat map graph measured in micro seconds

https://fontawesome.com/6 – FontAwesome 6 announced

https://cdn.fontawesome.com/ – Old CDN version

https://blog.fontawesome.com/introducing-font-awesome-kits/ – FontAwesome Kits product

https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegandy/ – Dave Gandy - FontAwesome founder

https://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-awesome/ – FontAwesome on LinkedIn

https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ – TIOBE index of popular languages

https://exercism.io/

https://sentry.io/welcome/

https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/

https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/pattern-matching/ – Learning Elixir? Pattern matching is a big foundational piece. This FREE course helps you get that “super power” feeling and helps you “get it” faster and more completely. I’m giving this away because I want everyone to have access to it.

Guest Information

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

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

https://twitter.com/fontawesome – FontAwesome Twitter account

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