Elixir Outlaws

This week kicks off with a discussion on productivity and habits. Amos is trying to learn how to focus and Chris decides that the best way to be productive is to be productive. The main topic this week is about refactoring and TDD. Chris believes refactoring isn’t a real word and goes to great lengths to explain why.

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This week the hosts discuss weekly reviews, telemetry, recent shakeups in the community, and how to make service communication more efficient.

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This week Chris and Amos are joined by friend of the show and author of Real-Time Phoenix, Steve Bussey. They discuss Steve's book release, Phoenix Channels, creative ways to use GenStage, and the best (worst) practices to use when building a library.

Special Guest: Steve Bussey.

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• Real-Time Phoenix

This week kicks off with Chris explaining why Ultimate Frisbee is a dumb game. The hosts talk about Norm updates and why we should re-write everything in rust. Chris explains the thesis of So Good They Can’t Ignore you. This leads to a discussion about how to find challenging problems.

Finally Amos brings up the southern tradition of Hoppin’ John. Which is boring and you can easily skip it.

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This week Chris and Amos discuss the benefits of vectors and the life changing magic of using a runtime with a good concurrency model.

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Chris is back on coffee and is coming in hot.

Amos attempts to talk through the new features in Elixir 1.10 while Chris constantly interjects, makes jokes and generally tries everyone’s patience. Eventually Chris settles down long enough to have a real conversation. The hosts describe the benefits of Elixir becoming a stable and boring choice. They also make fun of Go.

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Amos is driving this week. Chris and Amos discuss SICP and how amazing it is. Amos is preparing to winterize and Chris is working on a prolog interpreter. Chris talks about the journey of using emacs and the journey’s inside of those journeys.

Amos has been working with GenStage and Broadway. Chris knows nothing about Broadway and hasn’t ever found a problem that needed GenStage.

Chris theorizes that the reason people use processes for their business entities is because they don’t have other chances to use processes.

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This week kicks off with a recap of GigCity Elixir. Chris and Amos encourage people to attend smaller conferences because, seriously, they're way more fun.

Chris is building RPC to see if it helps solve some of the coordination issues that he's experiencing at work. The conversation moves to the concept of autonomy and leverage in software systems and how to help teams align on larger goals.

Dave's latest talk from GigCity is referenced and Chris expounds on his love for Datalog.

Finally the hosts indulge in multiple divergences in which they divulge information about their personal lives.

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A live recording right before the final keynote at GigCity Elixir.

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This week Anna and Amos discuss preparation for GigCity Elixir, modes of thinking, and concurrency models.

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