Elixir Outlaws

This week the hosts discuss Strangeloop, Unison, handling breaking changes, refactoring and how to build open systems.

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This week Chris and Anna discuss forever projects, privilege, and preparations for GigCity Elixir.

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This week Amos and Chris recap their favorite talks and experiences from ElixirConf 2019.

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The hosts talk about preparation for ElixirConf. Chris starts talking about Humidity for far too long before Amos pulls the ripcord. Chris mentions his breakthrough with Norm and Amos wonders if Chris has any thoughts about how to work through mental blocks. Chris talks about running and how useful pi-holing the elixir forum and twitter can be.

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This week kicks off with a discussion of database indexes, Datalog, and Datomic. Amos wants to talk about error handling and when to report errors to an external service. He thinks that the goal should be to get the reported errors to zero, and Chris thinks that’s not possible. Chris explains the ways that he reports metrics and errors to collection services.

The conversation moves to circuit breakers and common patterns for handling overload in service calls.

Chris and Amos wrap up with some tips for debugging production problems with the scientific method.

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• Datalog

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The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.

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The Elixir Outlaws now have a Patreon. If you’re enjoying the show then please consider throwing a few bucks our way to help us pay for the costs for the show.

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Chris is by himself this week and he’s answering your questions.

Topics covered: design by contract, norm, going remote, communicating complex systems, pairing, interesting features for elixir, frustrations with the community, and why he continues to do this podcast.

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Starting with wordsmithing and home improvement. Chris and Amos hit the Elixir talk with a discussion of Norm. They follow up with exception handling and when to use exceptions or tagged tuples.

Norm - Specify data shape for validation and generation

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