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- Theo Harris on Onboarding into Elixir at Alembic
Today on the show we’re excited to have Theo Harris here to discuss Onboarding Into Elixir. Theo is a technical consultant working for Alembic in Sydney, Australia. He is currently working on a project utilizing Elixir and Phoenix LiveView. Tune in today to learn more about Onboarding Into Elixir, from our guest Theo Harris!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Theo Harris
- Theo lets us in on his current hot tech take
- We discuss accessibility tips and tricks
- Theo gives us the run down on Alembic and what they do at their company
- We find out whether or not Theo has a pet dinosaur
- We learn of the technical challenges that Theo has faced as an Elixir Engineer
- The breakdown of the onboarding process at Alembic
- Theo gives advice to beginners on how to learn Elixir/Phoenix
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Theo Harris on Twitter — https://twitter.com/dino_coder
Theo Harris on GitHub — https://github.com/Theosaurus-RexvTheo Harris on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-harris-coder/Alembic — https://alembic.com.au/SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic40 min - Ashley Smith & Kenneth Moy from Bowery Farming on Oban
On today’s episode of Elixir Wizards, Ashley Smith and Kenneth Moy from Bowery Farming join us to dive into the particulars of Oban. Ashley has been working as a software engineer for 3 years with full-stack experience working mainly on web applications and now works in elixir at Bowery Farming. Kenneth is a software engineer at Bowery Farming with 3 years of elixir experience. Tune in today to learn more about Oban from today’s special guests, Ashley & Kenneth!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guests, Ashley & Kenneth
- We get the inside scoop of what happens behind the scenes at Bowery Farms and how they use elixir
- What is Oban and how does it compare to other languages
- Why one would use Oban rather than something like Broadway
- How Oban is useful at Bowery Farms
- Ashley & Kenneth explain why they are not “over” Ecto.Multi just yet
- We hear about their working experience at Bowery, some days are remote, some days are at the office, and some days are at the farm where they get to see their work come to life
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Ashley Smith on GitHub — https://github.com/asmith1
Ashley Smith on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-smith-951802126/Kenneth Moy on Twitter — https://mobile.twitter.com/chehitskenniexdKenneth Moy on GitHub — https://github.com/chehitskenniexdKenneth Moy on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenneth-moy/Bowery Farms — https://boweryfarming.comSmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic39 min - Jason Stiebs on LiveView at RokkinCat
Today we welcome Jason Stiebs to the podcast to talk about all things LiveView and how he was originally wrong about LiveView in the beginning. Jason is the founder at Rokkincat, and a core contributor to Phoenix. Jason loves finding solutions to complex problems and mentoring young engineers. Tune in today to learn more about LiveView from today’s special guest, Jason Stiebs!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Jason Stiebs
- A summary of Jason’s talk at ElixirConf on why he initially was wrong about LiveView
- How Jason became a Phoenix core team member
- What is stopping LiveView from being 1.0
- Is there something that would make LiveView ‘complete’
- How to decide to use LiveView over an SPA framework
- Do you know if there are any folks out there putting together tooling for LiveView? Thinking like Chrome devtools, performance monitoring, etc. What tools can we use to compare our LiveView performance to non LV performance?
- What Jason's thoughts about a time traveling feature for LiveView like what React / Redux has
- What some featuresare from other frameworks that Jason would like to see in LiveView one day
- How often Jason sees mixed LV and non LV projects
- We hear about what's next in terms of features for functional components
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Jason Stiebs on Twitter — https://twitter.com/peregrine
Jason Stiebs on GitHub — https://github.com/jeregrineJason Stiebs on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonstiebs/Jason Stiebs Email Address – [email protected]RokkinCat — https://rokkincat.com/SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic50 min - Mark & David from Thinking Elixir on Ecto Queries
This week the Thinking Elixir Podcast is taking over Elixir Wizards! Mark & David from Thinking Elixir are here today to parse the particulars of Ecto Queries! Mark Ericksen is an Elixir Specialist at Fly.io and host of Thinking Elixir. David Bernheisel is a Senior Software Engineer at Bitfo and host of Thinking Elixir. Tune in today to learn more about Ecto Queries from today’s special guests, Mark Ericksen and David Bernheisel!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guests, Mark & David
- The hosts catch up with Mark & David and learn about David’s new book Ecto In Production
- Dave Lucia is mentioned once again, can we go one episode without talking about him?
- Find out how long David & Mark have been working in databases
- We get the breakdown of what an Ecto Query is
- There is a discussion around schema migrations vs data migrations and how to avoid common pain points
- Learn what resources are available for learning Ecto
- We find out what the pin operator is and when it is used
- What an extensive query is and how to optimize queries
- We learn about fun edge cases that we’ve bumped into while working with Ecto
- The ins and outs of Ecto dump and Ecto load
”Ecto is a whole wide world of information. You think you know a lot and then you realize you don't. Nope, I'm almost just as dumb as I was five years ago about SQL and Ecto. Nope, it evolves. It gets deep.” - Mark Ericksen
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Mark Ericksen on Twitter — https://twitter.com/brainlid
Mark Ericksen on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-ericksen-66397417/David Bernheisel on Twitter – https://twitter.com/bernheiselDavid Bernheisel on GitHub – https://github.com/dbernheiselDavid Bernheisel on LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernheisel/Thinking Elixir Podcast https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogicUse The Index, Luke! https://use-the-index-luke.com/Postgresql Tutorial https://www.postgresqltutorial.com/Postgresql subquerieshttps://stackoverflow.com/questions/3004887/how-to-do-a-postgresql-subquery-in-select-clause-with-join-in-from-clause-like-shttps://www.w3resource.com/sql/subqueries/understanding-sql-subqueries.phpFly Blog: Safe Ecto Migrations https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/Crunchy Data Developer Tutorials https://www.crunchydata.com/developers/tutorialsCrunchy Data Postgres Tips https://www.crunchydata.com/postgres-tipsEcto in Production https://www.ectoinproduction.com/SQL Join Illustration https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SQLJoins.svgSQL Join Illustration https://i.stack.imgur.com/UI25E.jpg54 min - Tyler Young on Geo Mapping at Felt
Today on Elixir Wizards we are joined by Tyler Young to explore the particulars of Geo Mapping, the process of turning data into maps. Tyler is a Senior Software Developer at Felt, the world’s first collaborative mapping tool built for anyone to make a beautiful map in minutes. Tune in today to learn more about Geo Mapping from today’s special guest, Tyler Young!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Tyler Young
- We discover Tyler’s background and how he started working in Elixir, as well as how he got into the map business because of his love for Elixir
- We learn about GIS and its history as a system/standard/protocol, and how someone can study GIS
- Find out how mapping is helpful in more ways than just for directions, including climate changes, vacation planning, and more
- Tyler breaks down the common technologies and toolkits for programming with maps
- The specific tools that Felt is using to ingest map data and build the interactive maps
- What common problems arise when developing with maps
Tyler teaches the Elixir Wizards about his tried and true way of decision making with “The McDonald’s option”
_**Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:Tyler Young on Twitter — https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung
Tyler Young on GitHub — https://github.com/s3cur3
Tyler Young on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-young-dev/
Felt — https://felt.com/about
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic
37 min - Kate Rezentes on GenServers at Simplebet
Season 9 is in full swing and we are so excited to welcome Kate Rezentes today to dive into the particulars of GenServers. Kate is a Junior Software Developer at Simplebet, a B2B product development company using machine learning and real-time technology to make every moment of every sporting event a betting opportunity. Tune in today to learn more from today’s special guest, Kate Rezentes!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Kate Rezentes
- We learn about Kate’s background and her long history with programming
- We discuss how many conferences she’s attended and why ElixirConf has been her favorite (thus far)
- Find out how Kate landed a job while attending ElixirConf
- How GenServers as a subject came to be
- We get an inside look at Kate’s working experience at Simplebet and her experience as a Junior Engineer in the industry so far
- What cases in particular cause the need for a GenServer
- We discuss where GenServers would be appropriate to use and why
- The ins and outs of ‘handle calls’ and ‘callbacks’
- The process of testing a GenServer and data storage_
**Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:*
- Kate Rezentes on Twitter — https://twitter.com/rezkate
- Kate Rezentes on GitHub — https://github.com/KateRezentes
- Kate Rezentes on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/kfrezent/
- Simplebet — https://simplebet.io/
- SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
- SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic
49 min - Dave Lucia on Observability at Bitfo
Welcome to our first episode of Season 9 Elixir Wizards, Parsing the Particulars. A show focused on conversations with software developers from around the world on the Elixir language and other modern web technologies. Today, we are joined by Dave Lucia, Chief Technology Officer at Bitfo, a cryptocurrency media company building educational content for people who are interested in cryptocurrency. Dave is active in the Elixir community and in the past has spoken at Code BEAM SF, ElixirConf, RabbitMQ Summit, and has written several blog posts which can be found at davelucia.com. In today’s episode we find out more about Dave’s professional background and dive into the particulars of observability. Tune in today to learn more from today’s special guest, Dave Lucia!
Key Points From This Episode:
- A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Dave Lucia
- We find out about Bitfo and what services they offer
- We discuss Dave’s blog post on observability
- Find out how Dave wrote the blog post because he saw a gap at his company
- How Sundi proofread Dave’s blog post and realized her lack of knowledge on observability
- The most common mistake teams or engineers make when it comes to observability
- We peel back the layers on what telemetry is
- What the difference between telemetry and OpenTelemetry is
- How to choose which tool is right when it comes to better observability
*The breakdown of the uses for observability telemetry*When and why would we use OpenTelemtry vs basic observability*What languages Dave started in before he was working in Elixir*How Elixir lends better for observability*Where to start if you want to implement basic observability for someone who has no experience with it*Dave answers the question, “can you go too far with observability?”*We discuss Livebook and what exciting things it will bring for the future*Most importantly, Dave explains why pineapples are important to him**Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
- Dave’s blog post on Observability: https://davelucia.com/blog/observing-elixir-with-lightstep
- Dave Lucia on Twitter — https://twitter.com/davydog187
- Dave Lucia on GitHub — https://github.com/davydog187
- Dave Lucia on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-lucia-a395441b/
- Bitfo — https://www.bitfo.com/
- SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
Links:
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52 min - We're baaaack! Season 9 Teaser
Hey everyone, Season 9 of Elixir Wizards is back! This season's theme is Parsing the Particulars, where we dive into particular subjects with our guests. Your returning hosts this season are Sundi, Owen and Dan! And we are excited to announce that we have a new host joining the show - Bilal Hankins! Bilal is a Software Developer at SmartLogic and is super excited to join us this season.
Some of this season's guests include Dave Lucia, CTO at Bitfo, Tyler Young, Senior Software Developer at Felt, and Kate Rezentes, Junior Developer at SimpleBet. Can't wait to see you there!
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic on Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogicSmartLogic on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartlogic-io/SmartLogic on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/smartlogic/Bilal Hankins on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/hankins-bilal/Sundi Myint on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundimyint/Owen Bickford on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/owen-bickford-8b6b1523a/2 min - Looking back on Season 8 with Sundi, Owen & Dan
It’s the season finale show! Can you believe it? Join us this week as Sundi, Owen, and Dan take a look back at this season of Elixir Wizards! You’ll hear their discussion about favorite moments over the season and learn about this season’s theme and its origin, and what they learned throughout the season. Enjoy and we hope to see you back for Season 9!
Key Points From This Episode:
Reflection on the guests experiences with all different types of language
How the team landed on the theme of Elixir in a Polyglot EnvironmentHaving expectation of guests vs how the conversation turned outThe discovery that environment influences the strength of the code that is being writtenWe dig deeper into the flexibility of all of these companiesHow the hosts enjoyed the dream language combination answers from guestsWe hear about the teams experience with their first in-person recordingHearing about guests personal experiences and projects vs just their at-work experienceWe find out what birds do when they’re excited in a treeFlutter as a solution for building mobile applicationsThe hosts likes, dislikes, experience with Flutter and the difference it brings to the tableWe reflect on a guest applying gamificationThe hosts discuss the guests range of experience, from a year to decades in the field, and how many different perspectives were shown with different backgroundsA recurring theme of the guests: structuring teams to fit the needs of the company - recurring themeHearing about products and projects guests are working onLinks Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/
SmartLogic on Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogicSmartLogic on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/company/smartlogic-io/SmartLogic on Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/smartlogic/Dan Ivovich on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/divovich/Sundi Myint on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/sundimyint/39 min - Nathan Retta on Engineering in Android at DoorDash
This week on Elixir Wizards we’re joined by Nathan Retta, Senior Software Engineer from Android at DoorDash. We learn about Nathan’s background; his experience having a degree in Chemical Engineering and working in Oil and Gas for 6 years. Nathan then wrote an Android app in 2016 and soon after became a mobile developer -- the rest is history. He is currently based in Denver, Colorado, and our host Owen has met him prior through the Denver Elixir virtual meet up.
Join us today for this conversation between Owen, Dan and Nathan as we learn about Nathan’s experience leading up to his current position at Android for DoorDash and how he is using Elixir in his side projects.
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About Elixir Wizards
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Elixir Wizards is an interview-style podcast from SmartLogic featuring conversations with developers, engineers, and industry leaders about the Elixir programming language and the broader software…
development landscape. Each episode explores how modern systems are built, from distributed architectures and infrastructure to developer workflows, security, and emerging technologies like AI. While rooted in the Elixir ecosystem, the show often branches out to compare approaches across languages, platforms, and disciplines. Whether you’re working in Elixir or just interested in how software is evolving, Elixir Wizards offers practical insights and thoughtful perspectives from the people building today’s systems.