Elixir Outlaws

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 t...

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'...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 brea...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 fo...

This week kicks off with a discussion about San Francisco's iconoclastic - but also incorrect - name for a specific coffee drink. Amos is, as they say, coming in hot and launches full bore into a discussion about the elixir forum’s moderation policies. Chris is primarily concerned about the angry letters they’re going to receive. The hosts discuss the benefits of moderating a community. They all a...

This week kicks off with an explanation of Chris’s so called grooming habits. Amos explains how to properly cook fried eggs. The guys remember the early days of the show and comment on how their audio quality was somehow even worse back then. Amos is trying to figure out the best way to give back to the community. The discussion moves towards the social contracts of open source which Chris thinks...

The hosts this week are coming in cold. Amos and Chris are drinking Starbucks, although Amos seems much more upset about it than Chris. Anna has finally returned from her vacation in Japan only to find that her microphone stand no longer works correctly. Anna describes her longest Monday ever and Amos explains why he can’t sleep on planes. Chris has been doing nothing exciting besides not sleeping...

This week Elixir has been uninstalled from Amos’s laptop and Chris is reading books and writing C. Chris explains why he still chooses to write C and why most people don’t need to manually manage memory. During the main topic Amos describes a problem he’s having with Tesla and Hackney. This leads to a discussion about how to build systems that can handle failure. Amos brings up Let It Crash and wh...

This week Amos is back from his yearly vision quest and Chris faces the problem of being interested in too many things at once. Amos discusses some experiences using Broadway and GenStage which gives Chris an excuse to bring up Little’s Law (as if he needed one). The main topic this week is observability. This topic is motivated by Amos’s latest book: Behind Human Error. Amos provides a brief rund...

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.

As nerds we like to systematize the things we do. What do we do to think through our problems? 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.

4th wall break Hey everyone, we're still wrestling with audio gremlins. This week is based on the raw audio from our call so you'll hear some artifacts in there. I just wanted you to be aware in case you're sensitive to that kind of thing. We've solved this problem so going forward this shouldn't happen again. -Keathley Notes This week starts with some serious discussion about the nature of hammoc...

This week kicks off with Chris chastising Amos about always being late. The hosts discuss the value of time and recent conference trips. The discussion shifts towards talk preparation techniques, the value of speaking at conferences, and some tips for new speakers. Chris takes control of the show and does a hard pivot towards the main topic this week; the overuse of processes and state management....

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. Special Guest: Bruce Tate.

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. Conference rundown and teaching distributed systems with Chris and Anna.