Elixir Mix

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Dave Lucia is a CTO at a media company called Bitfo, which builds high-quality educational content in the cryptocurrency space. He has been an Elixir Developer for about 6 years. He is the author of “Elixir Observability: OpenTelemetry, Lightstep, Honeycomb”. He joins the show to talk about how they were able to build their system and other websites like DeFi Rate and ethereumprice.
About this Episode

• Observability
• OpenTelemetry
• OpenTracing
• Analyzing and Making Data useful
• Tools used for tracing and metrics

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Elixir Observability: OpenTelemetry, Lightstep, Honeycomb
• Bitfo
• DeFi Rate
• ethereumprice
• Dave Lucia's Blog
• GitHub: davydog187
• Twitter: @davydog187

Picks

• Allen - Distributed Services with Go
• Dave - Software Unscripted
• Dave - bitfo/timescale
• Dave - bitfo/ectorange
• Sascha - ex_union

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The panel dives into how different Union Types apply to Elixir. They share their thoughts and experiences on the topic as well as techniques when writing codes. Sascha also gives a brief background about his current project called ExUnion.
Topics Discussed

• Difference between Product Type and Sum Type
• How are Typespecs used in Elixir
• All about ExUnion and how is it relevant

Sponsors

• Chuck's Resume Template
• Developer Book Club starting with Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin
• Become a Top 1% Dev with a Top End Devs Membership

Links

• Witchcraft
• GitHub: ex_union

Picks

• Adi - SpawnFest 2022
• Allen - OrbitKey
• Sascha - gitmoji | An emoji guide for your commit messages
• Sascha - Domain Modeling Made Functional

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Tristan Sloughter has been an Erlang Developer for over 19 years. In this episode, Tristan joins the show as he talks about their project called “OpenTelemetry release of Erlang/Elixir.” With the use of this protocol, in your application, developers can collect, process, and export data. He also shares his journey toward shifting his focus from OpenCensus to OpenTelemetry and gives a background about it.
Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• OpenTelemetry Erlang/Elixir, Javascript, and Ruby v1.0
• GitHub: tsloughter
• Twitter: @t_sloughter

Picks

• Sascha- Watch INVINCIBLE – SEASON 1 | Prime Video - Amazon.com
• Tristan - OvermindDL1/gradualixir

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The Elixir Mix panel they discuss how they run their CI/CD pipelines, how they set them up, how they run, and what they do to make them a valuable part of the development process. They also discuss caching, how deep it needs to go, and how they approach getting the best/most information out of the system they're running.

Links:

• Dialyzer
• Docker
• Datadog
• Episode on CI/CD

Picks:Sasha

• Effective DevOps
• IdealCast with Gene Kim

Allen

• Ember Mug

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Today we talk with Thibaut Barrère, an independent consultant, working with development, data pipelines, and extract, transform, load (ETL) work.  He comes to us with a lot of experience in Elixir, Ruby, Ansible, and Javascript.  We discuss his article "How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?"

In this episode…

• Req
• Mix
• Implementation of the cache
• Tesla
• Finch
• Automated testing
• Mox

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Technical ramblings on Elixir, Ruby, Dev/Ops & code in general.
• How to implement a disk cache plugin for Elixir's Req HTTP client?
• Mix - Mix v1.14.0
• bliki: AntiPattern
• Metaprogramming + DSL Design in Elixir | Adi Iyengar | Code BEAM V EU 21
• Mat Trudel: `mix new beats` -- Recreating The "Amen Break" with Elixir
• GitHub: hbar
• Twitter: @thibaut_barrere

Picks

• Adi- Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Adi - Anyone looking for part-time Elixir contracting roles - contact me
• Allen- Shop Products | Nanoleaf " USA " Consumer IoT & LED Smart Lighting Products
• Thibaut- GoranGrooves Library

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Michael Fich joins the show today to share how he implemented the PostgreSQL schema to enhance the Elixir workflows at his organization, the Score, based in Toronto Canada.  Sascha and Allen also provide additional insights and deep dive into their experience with PostgreSQL models.

In this episode…

• Moving from Ruby to Elixir 
• theScore bet app and queries
• Utilizing the Ecto schema
• Key performance indicators and indexes
• Increasing the scale at the Score
• Pub/sub and Postgres
  
  

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• PostgreSQL Queries on JSONB Fields with Ecto
• LinkedIn: Michael Fich
• Twitter: @michael_fich

Picks

• Allen- ElixirConf 2022 - Chris McCord - Phoenix + LiveView Updates
• Michael- Toronto Sports News - Scores, Schedules, Expert Analysis - Blue Jays, Argonauts, Toronto FC, Raptors, Maple Leafs, and more... - The Athletic
• Sascha- GENKI Waveform Earphones

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Today we talk with Wojtek Mach from Dashbit, about the Livebook Desktop app, a tool for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks.  Dashbit primarily works with clients, helping companies adopt and run Elixir.  We talk about the history of how Livebook came to be, and the challenges of developing for desktop apps.  We also get a sneak peak into what is coming soon.

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Livebook.dev
• GitHub: livebook-dev/livebook
• GitHub: livebook/mix.exs
• wxErlang Reference Manual
• Twitter: @wojtekmach
• Twitter:@dashbit

Picks

• Allen- ‎Flying High with Flutter on Apple Podcasts
• Allen- Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend | Tauri Apps
• Wojtek- ElixirConf US 2022
• Wojtek- Daemon

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With day-to-day development, it is vital to ensure our workflows are optimized and that developer time is utilized efficiently.  Today on the show, Szymon Soppa shares about what we should do with our Elixir CIs to ensure this optimization and developer efficiencies are maximized for production.

In this episode…

• Continuous integration (CI) and automation
• Customizing the formatter
• Configurations in the formatter
• Functionalities within a library
• Other tools 
• Steps for implementation
• Communicating with your team on CI processes

Sponsors

• Top End Devs
• Coaching | Top End Devs

Links

• Mastering Elixir CI pipeline | Curiosum
• Twitter: @SzymonSoppa
• LinkedIn: Szymon Soppa

Picks

• Allen- Terraform in Action
• Adi - Good candidates for Elixir engineers: Neal Techni, John Hitz
• Syzmon- Elixir meetup at 2022-09-14 | Curiosum
• Szymon- Elixir and Phoenix Software House | Curiosum

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