Thinking Elixir Podcast

Decomposing models based on lifecycle with Maciej Kaszubowski. He shares tips on finding the lines, how DDD can help, ideas for modular designs, simple ways to start a PubSub architecture, avoiding “donkey code” and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/9 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/hauleth/status/1292919509406363661 https://hex.pm/packages/magritte – Packa...

We discuss career development as programmers, how COVID may change things, our dev setups including editors, resources, asdf, docker, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/8 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva/status/1290397379292790786 – ElixirSense and ElixirLS is going to gain insight for Ecto https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/12902344526526...

We talk with Miguel Palhas about lessons learned while working with background jobs in production systems. He shares some tips he’s learned through experience. We share other mistakes made and what we learn from them. We cover background job options, choosing tech based on the team you have, IEx tips to remind yourself you’re on production, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkin...

FontAwesome, the internet’s most popular icon toolkit, uses Elixir behind the scenes. We talk with Rob Madole to learn how they got there and Rob shares insights to what goes on behind-the-scenes. We cover how they teach Elixir to their team, Rob shares helpful resources, tips on giving good code reviews, pairing, how to find great talent, adding in OTP later, and much more! Show Notes online - ht...

We talk with Ricardo Trindade about learning Elixir and GraphQL. We discuss learning on personal interest projects, GraphQL vs REST, executing Ruby or Python from Elixir, helpful learning resources and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/5 Elixir Community News https://github.com/msaraiva/surface – The Surface Library recently proposed scoped CSS https://twitter.com/pr...

ElixirConf US 2020 was announced! This will be our first virtual one. We talk with the organizer Dr. Jim Freeze to get the behind the scenes information on how it will work. We cover the current challenges facing conferences, how do you replicate the “hallway track”, submitting topics, what they are looking for this year, how going virtual changes things, and much more! Show Notes online - http://...

Elixir 1.11 is shaping up to be a huge release with a number of “big deal” features. We are joined by Wojtek Mach to help us understand the significance of some of the new features. These include an improved recompilation process, when alias is preferred over import, improved compiler checks for structs, Erlang help docs in IEx, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/3 Eli...

REST Controllers vs GraphQL. You’ve probably heard of GraphQL but maybe you haven’t played with it yet. We talk with Ben Wilson, co-creator of Absinthe, a GraphQL library for Elixir and the book Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe to get a better idea of how REST and GraphQL compare. In this episode we discuss benefits of GraphQL, familiarity of REST, making requests over channels, getting...

Welcome to the Thinking Elixir Podcast! My name is Mark Ericksen. This is our first official episode together. We cover the community news and introduce ourselves. Subscribe in your favorite podcast player and join us! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/1 Elixir Community News https://bytepack.io/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-165-feat-jos%C3%A9-valim/id129828704...