Elixir Talk

# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean Stavropoulos We're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL. In this show, we touch on: * The adoption of Elixir e

# Episode 165 - José Valim on Bytepack, Open Source, and LiveView changes in Phoenix 1.5 Chris and Desmond are backed by a very special guest; José Valim! You might know José as the creator of the Elixir programming language and we're excited to have him back as a 3rd time guest on the show. José walks us through a brand new Dashbit project, Bytepack which is a way to package a

We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode Chris & Desmond do a deep dive on organizing code in Elixir and talk about some best practices. We recorded this a couple weeks ago so it may sound a little stale :) We touch on: * Module and context naming * How we like to organize code in our projects * Big long modules vs many small modules * How to split up contex

We’re back with a recap with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode we cover quite a few topics; an EMPEX LA recap, a foray into project management tools that we like and use (!), and then we round things out by talking about Chris integrating App Signal into his API at Muru. It’s a fun, jam packed episode with us going all around through many topics and go longer than

# Episode 162 - Designing Elixir Systems with Bruce Tate It's another episode of ElixirTalk, this time Chris and Desmond are joined by the one and only Bruce Tate author of many notable titles such as Programming Phoenix and Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, as well as being a frequent speaker on the circuit. We dig into the new Designing Elixir Systems with OTP book, that James Edwa

# Episode 161 - feat. Todd Resudek We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk, this time joined by the one and only Todd Resudek who gives us a run through of his talk at this years EMPEX LA entitled “It’s Time to Embrace Erlang”. Listen in to hear us discuss Todd’s nerve projects (including his recent LiveView Smart Mirror), why Todd thinks learning you some Erlang as

We’re back! It’s been a while but it’s 2020 and Chris and Desmond are back with a new episode for the new decade. In this very timely episode we dive into the big community news; Plataformatec being acquired and what that means for the community and the new Elixir v1.10-rc.0 release. After that, we accidentally stray once again into a spirited discussion about ops, Kubernetes

Chris and Desmond are back! In this episode we talk about Desmond’s exploration into Property-Based testing, and then do a deep dive into authorization and access control in Chris’ GraphQL API. Property-based testing is a new world for both of us, but we do our best to tell you all about what libraries to use and how we’re thinking of using it. Chris is deep in some reworking

# Episode 158 - Oban, Background Jobs and Designing Resilient Systems in Elixir. In this episode of ElixirTalk Chris & Desmond dive into background jobs using Oban, a new library that relies on Postgres to add persistence to job scheduling. We discuss why you’d want to reach for a library like Oban in the first place, which leads us to a discussion on distributed systems design,

# Episode 157 – LiveView & The Future of Phoenix ft. Chris McCord Today on ElixirTalk we’re joined by Chris McCord who you may know as the creator of the Phoenix framework, and a second time guest on ElixirTalk. In this episode we talk quite a bit about LiveView, the journey of taking it from a prototype to release, the optimizations that have come along the way, and some of th