Elixir Mix

Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Mark Erikson
• Josh Adams
• Eric Berry

Special Guests: Sam Davies In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Sam Davies about asynchronicity in Elixir. Sam has been programming for about six years and got into Elixir about a year ago. Before working with Elixir, he was a Ruby programmer and he currently works for a company called Nested and introduced them to Elixir there. They talk about asynchronous programming, different Elixir libraries, and his creation Rihanna. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Sam intro
• ProGolfMe Startup
• Contributor to Rails and Elixir core
• Worked in Ruby before Elixir
• Loved the Ruby community
• Why Elixir?
• Asynchronous programming
• Understanding the BEAM
• Erlang
• Idea of supervisors
• What you do when a job fails
• Is the company going to lose money if we implement this?
• Exq library
• Resque and Sidekiq
• Issues with Exq
• Codefund
• Rihanna
• Rihanna inspired by Que
• Delayed Job
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Elixir
• Nested
• ProGolfMe
• Rails
• Ruby
• Why Elixir?
• Erlang
• Exq
• Resque
• Sidekiq
• Codefund
• Rihanna
• Que
• Delayed Job
• SamuelDavies.net
• Sam’s GitHub
• @samphilipd

Picks: Charles

• Mattermost
• Documenting processes for the podcasts
• Spend time with the people you care about
• JavaScript Jabber, Adventures in Angular, React Round Up, and Views on Vue

Mark

• gproc

Eric

• CodePilot
• Working from home

Josh

• Talk: Efficient data loading in Elixir using the deferrable pattern
• Event Sourcing made Simple by Philippe Creux

Sam

• Node.js and Elixir presentation
• Talk: Elixir Umbrella

Special Guest: Sam Davies.

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Panel:

• Mark Erikson
• Eric Berry
• Justin Bean

Special Guests: Kamil Lelonek In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Kamil Lelonek about Blockchain in Elixir. Kamil is a software engineer from Poland who does full stack development with Elixir and JavaScript. He is also an educated dietician and is interested in topics such as biohacking, Bitcoin, and Blockchain. They talk about how he got into Elixir, how he decided to start implementing Blockchain in Elixir, and Bitcoin. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Kamil intro
• Elixir and JavaScript
• How did you come to Elixir?
• Between Clojure and Elixir originally
• Some experience with functional programming
• Experience with Java, Ruby, and Scala
• Wanted to use a functional language
• Full-time Elixir developer now
• How hard was it to transition to Elixir?
• Syntax of Elixir is similar to Ruby
• How long did it take you to go from an operational mindset to a functional mindset?
• Coding in a non-idiomatic way
• How did you get into Bitcoin and Blockchain with Elixir?
• Start everything from scratch
• Document journey through blog posts
• Haven’t had any problems so far with implementation
• Why Elixir is a good technology to implement Blockchain with
• Started off simple
• Leverage OTP in future
• Leveraging wit pattern matching and binary matching
• Blog posts to come
• Mastering Bitcoin
• Bitstring parsing
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Elixir
• JavaScript
• Clojure
• Bitcoin
• Blockchain
• Ruby
• Scala
• Blockchain blog posts
• Mastering Bitcoin
• Kamil’s Blog
• kamil.lelonek.me
• Kamil’s GitHub
• @KamilLelonek

Picks: Mark

• Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat

Eric

• Six-Sided Fidget Spinner

Justin

• Keyboard io

Kamil

• Nonviolent Communication by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg

Special Guest: Kamil Lelonek.

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Panel:

• Eric Berry
• Josh Adams
• Justin Bean

Special Guests: Chris Keathley In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Chris Keathley. Chris has been in the Elixir community for a number of years and has been trying to contribute more to the community recently. He created libraries such as Wallaby and has been working on distributed systems tooling more recently. They talk about his various projects that he is working on, such as Raft, Toniq, and Maestro, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Chris intro
• Elixir
• Wallaby
• What are you doing with distributed systems now?
• Raft and Raft for Elixir
• People like to attack problems with consistent solutions
• Global process registries
• What are AP Semantics?
• What are CP Semantics?
• Available systems
• Eventual consistency
• Clustering inside of VPN
• Encapsulating state
• Warehouse kiosks
• The world fights against state machines
• Alternatives based on rules or events
• What projects are you working on now?
• CAP Theorum
• Toniq GitHub
• ecto_hlclock
• Event sourcing
• Stems around message ordering
• Maestro
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Wallaby
• Elixir
• Raft
• Raft for Elixir
• CAP Theorem
• Toniq
• ecto_hlclock
• Maestro
• Elixir Outlaws
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
• Beam Community
• Chris’s GitHub
• Keathley.io
• @ChrisKeathley

Picks: Eric

• Bob’s Burgers
• Metabase

Justin

• Phantom Thread
• Dialyzer

Josh

• Elm Game Jam

Chris

• Wild Wild Country
• Hammocks
• Start a garden

Special Guest: Chris Keathley.

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Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Josh Adams
• Justin Bean

Special Guests: Bryan Joseph In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel discusses ElixirScript with Bryan Joseph. Bryan works for Revelry Labs, has been a programmer for about 10 years, and has worked with Elixir since about 2013. They talk about what ElixirScript is, why you would want to use it, and why he came about wanting to create it. They also touch on different open source libraries that he has created and the importance of usability. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Bryan intro
• Elixir
• What is ElixirScript?
• Use it through a transpiler
• What are the biggest challenges facing ElixirScript?
• Usability
• Where would you use ElixirScript?
• Use it on web applications or on node
• How easy is it to use this on top of a front-end library?
• Hex packages
• What’s the build process like?
• There is a compile step
• Mix compile
• Include output folder in whatever app you are doing
• Creates ES modules
• What’s the most ambitious ElixirScript project going on right now?
• To-do application
• Was there a pain point at all?
• How far did you get with processes?
• Processes library
• Do have plans to move this over to WebAssembly?
• ElixirScript React Library
• Vue
• Webpack
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Revelry Labs
• Elixir
• ElixirScript
• Processes Library
• WebAssembly
• ElixirScript React Library
• Vue
• Webpack
• @bryanjos
• Brian’s GitHub
• Drab

Picks: Charles

• Star Realms

Justin

• Benchy
• God of War

Josh

• Capabilities 101
• erights.org

Bryan

• nimble parsec
• Adopting Elixir by Ben Marx
• The Big Elixir
• Revelry Labs

Special Guest: Bryan Joseph.

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EMx 001: Welcome to Elixir Mix Panel:

• Charles Max Wood
• Josh Adams
• Justin Bean
• Mark Erikson

Special Guests: None In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel discusses Elixir and themselves. They talk about how the show got started, what each of the panelists are wanting to get out of the show, and how each of them got into Elixir themselves. They stress the fact that they want this show to make a difference in the Elixir community, give Elixir a bigger audience, and allow people to see what big and amazing things are happening with the language. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Panelist introductions
• DailyDrip and Elixir Sips
• CodeFund.io
• Elixir Lunch and Utah Elixir
• Dave Thomas Elixir Course
• How the show got started
• This show will serve a community that he somewhat knows
• Wanting to make a difference in the Elixir community
• What are you wanting to see from the show?
• Getting more people using Elixir
• Learning from the best
• Want people to enjoy Elixir as much as they do
• How did you get into the Elixir community from the Ruby community?
• How did you find out about Elixir?
• Actor model
• What do you recommend for new people to Elixir?
• Learning the data types and recursion patterns
• Resources
• Elixir Resources
• ElixirSchool.com
• ElixirStatus.com
• Elixir Docs
• #myelixirstatus on Twitter
• Phoenix
• And much, much more!

Links:

• DailyDrip
• Elixir Sips
• CodeFund.io
• Elixir Lunch
• Utah Elixir
• Dave Thomas Elixir Course
• Elixir
• Ruby
• Elixir Resources
• ElixirSchool.com
• ElixirStatus.com
• Elixir Docs
• Phoenix
• Brainlid.org
• @Brainlid
• @knewter
• Justin’s GitHub
• Nerves

Picks: Charles

• Ordro Camera
• Tri-Pod
• Facebook Marketplace

Justin

• A Phoenix Field Guide For Djangonauts by Rodrigo Landerdahl
• Waverider

Josh

• The Eponymous Laws of Tech
• Wallaby

Mark

• ElixirStatus.com
• #ElixirStatus

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