Elixir Mix

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Join our weekly discussion of the popular functional language built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. Each week, we discuss the world of Elxiir, Phoenix, OTP, and then BEAM. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

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January 24, 2025Episode 27149 min

Exploring Elixir Type Validation with Domo and Ivan Rublev - EMx 271

Welcome to another insightful episode of Elixir Mix, part of the Top End Devs podcast. In today’s conversation, our host Charles Max Wood and panelist Sasha Wolf welcome Ivan Rublev, a backend Elixir engineer with a particular focus on business domains like real estate and B2B. Ivan dives deep into the Domo library—a project he started to address certain gaps he felt existed within Elixir’s type system. He explains how Domo provides meaningful errors by validating structures against type definitions both at compile-time and runtime. The discussion also covers the inspiration behind Domo, its practical applications, and performance considerations. Moreover, Sasha and Ivan discuss potential use cases where Domo shines and some scenarios where it might not be the ideal tool. They also touch on domain-driven design principles and Ivan’s interest in seeing Domo deployed in large-scale systems with multiple microservices. Don't miss it as they uncover the possibilities and limitations of Domo, its impact on compile times, and real-world testing scenarios. Plus, stay tuned till the end for some book recommendations and more details on how you can level up your development skills with Top End Devs. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

January 8, 202544 min

Elixir and Python interoperability with Alvise Susmel - EMx 270

In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panelists talk with Alvise Susmel about building Elixir systems that leverage Python image detection on video frames. We cover Ports vs NIFs, using platforms for their strengths, cool embedded hardware, displaying real time results in Phoenix or Scenic, and much more! Links Real-time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python cvlib GitHub opencv/opencv Hexdocs Elixir/Port Erlang 4 Ports Yolo Erlang 8 NIFs Jetson Nano Developer Kit GitHub boydm/scenic Poeticcoding Picks Sophie - Black Hat Go Sophie - Love Is Blind Mark - Hollywood.computer Alvise - Outside Elixir Alvise - Designing Data-Intensive Applications Alvise - Dark Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

January 1, 202546 min

Riak Core and Partisan with Mariano Guerra - EMx 269

In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Mariano Guerra. Mariano wrote some wonderful tutorial blogs outlining how to use Riak Core in Elixir. He begins the episode by sharing a little about himself and his work. Mariano then defines Riak Core and tells the story of where it came from. He explains what he loves about Riak Core and dubs himself the unofficial cheerleader of Riak Core. Mariano tells the panel about his blog articles and what listeners will find in them. He explains to the panel what inspired him to write them. Mariano then gives the panel examples of the problems solved by Riak Core and the best use cases for it. Partisan is the next subject the panel asks Mariano about. Mariano shares the story of where Partisan came from and explains when you want to use it. Finally, Mariano tells the panel about his work for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Right now he is working hard to unify the documentation for all the Beam languages. He shares his admiration for the Elixir documentation and explains that Erlang documentation needs a lot of work. The panel discusses how unifying the Beam will help the community and make their lives easier. Links TLA+ Riak Products Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store https://github.com/basho/riak_core Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Introduction http://partisan.cloud/ https://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/ Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Setup Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Getting Started Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: We can make a Key Value Store out of that Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Migrating Data with Handoff Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Resources https://gitlab.com/marianoguerra/civiledb/ https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl https://twitter.com/warianoguerra https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix https://twitter.com/elixir_mix Picks Mark - Immutability - Computerphile Mark - Simple Sabotage Field Manual Mariano - Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir Mariano - Practical TLA+: Planning Driven Development Josh - Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak Core, Riak KV, and Webmachine: Jesse Newland Sophie - How to Compose Queries in Ecto Sophie - Basque Burnt Cheesecake Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

December 25, 202442 min

Embracing Erlang with Todd Resudek - EMx 268

In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Todd Resudeck about how digging into Erlang empowers you as an Elixir developer, what’s so fun about Nerves and what makes him such a charming and hilarious conference speaker. Links What Elixir is about – José Valim – Erlang User Conference 2015 GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić Picks Alex - https://akoutmos.com/post/actor-model-genserver-app-two/ Alex - https://plausible.io/ Bruce - https://grox.io/language/liveview/course Bruce - Programmer Passport: Phoenix LiveView – Bonus Video – phx.gen.auth Todd - ElixirConf 2016 – Selling Food With Elixir by Chris Bell Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

December 18, 202451 min

Nerves Powered Mechanical Keyboards with Chris Dosé - EMx 267

In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Dosé joins us to talk about some of the open source work that he has done at Peek. He also talks to us about his exciting Nerves projects Xebow and AFK. Links iCalendar GitHub Chris Dosé GitHub ElixirSeattle/xebow Picks Steven - The Art of Agile James Shore Steven - US History YouTube Lars - Hurry Slowly Lars - Peter van Roy - KEYTNOTE Why time is evil indistributed systems l Code BEAM STO 19 Chris - ElixirConf 2018 - Picking Properties to Test in Property Based Testing - Michael Stalker Sophie - Anybody have any easy baking recipes? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

December 11, 202446 min

Elixir Education with Adolfo Neto - EMx 266

In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to. Links https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@adolfont https://t.me/elixirconferences https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/telegram.md Adolfo Neto: My three favorite resources for learning Elixir https://t.me/elixirconferences Picks Steven - PDF Reader that does text to speech Josh - GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree Bruce - grox.io/language/liveview/course Bruce - Keynote: Build Good Software: Of Politics and Methods – Brian L. Troutwine Lars - BEAM Bloggers Webring Sophie - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein Adolfo - Telegram Group for Alchemists Adolfo - Education Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Adolfo - Elixir Resources in Portuguese Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

December 4, 202443 min

Finding the Silver Lining in Hard Times - EMx 265

Given the current state of the world, we've been put into a position where things have lost jobs or lost in other areas of life. The panel discusses how to make the most of things when hard things come your way. Links Course Creator Pro How To Write & Launch Your Book To $10,000 in 90 Days The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job Authority Corona Dev Jobs Remote: Office Not Required Hackernoon Picks Soojin - Apple Store Monument Valley 2 Soojin - Google Play Monument Valley 2 Alex - Stellaris Charles - RRU 104: How to Start a Side Hustle as a Programmer with Mani Vaya Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

November 27, 202446 min

Elixir Education with Adolfo Neto - EMx 264

November 20, 202440 min

Pluralsight, Courses, and Elixir the Big Picture ft. AJ Foster - EMx 263

AJ Foster is a developer at Pluralsight. He talks about the course he made for Pluralsight about Elixir and then talks about how Elixir was brought into Pluralsight, both into their catalog of courses as well as into the tech stack for the company. Links Elixir: The Big Picture Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19 Elixir Diff Erlang - heart PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING GitHub: AJ Foster ( aj-foster ) Twitter: AJ Foster ( @Austin_J_Foster ) Picks AJ- GitHub | aj-foster/absinthe-socket-transport AJ- FIRST Allen- Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19 Allen- Zero To Production In Rust Eric- Hardcore Zen Sascha- Erlang in Anger Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .

November 13, 202435 min

Elixir as a General Purpose Language - EMx 262

This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles. They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them. Links Erlang Term Storage (ETS) dets (stdlib) - (Erlang Documentation) JVM struggles and the BEAM Picks Adi- How to split a router into multiple modules using Phoenix Adi- ElixirConf EU 2021 volunteer application form Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support .