Elixir Mix

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Josh AdamsMark Ericksen Guest: Eric Oestrich Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir Mix, Mark Ericksen and Josh Adams chat with guest, Eric Oestrich, a developer at SmartLogic and creator of ExVenture and Grapevine, two open source Elixir applications centered around text based games. Eric gives updates on ExVenture and Grapevine. Mark and Josh both have referenced ExVenture before, for using different ideas. They mention Prometheus and Grafana, two monitoring platforms that work well with Elixir applications.  Eric also describes how Grapevine and ExVenture interact to help gamers get profiled with their achievements. Eric shares his experiences getting ExVenture set up with a continuous integration (CI) server. Panelists agree having side projects help developers try out new technology without deadline pressure. Eric does live development every Monday at 12:00 pm EST on smartlogictv. Eric and Mark both share their exp

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Josh AdamsMark EricksenCharles Max Wood Guest: Francesco Cesarini Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir, Charles Wood, Josh Adams and Mark Ericksen chat with guest, Francesco Cesarini, Founder and Technical Director at Erlang Solutions about how to build reliable and scalable systems within the Elixir and Erlang world. Erlang Solutions provides consultancy to customers who are not familiar with Elixir and offers training when necessary. With their WOMBATOAM tool that can handle very large-scale systems like WhatsApp with its fault tolerant capability. Francesco talks about how he likes Elixir which is an up and coming language that focuses on UI/UX usability and compares Erlang and Elixir languages.  Francesco mentions he is impressed with the emphasis Elixir community places on user-friendliness. The guest discusses pros and cons of handling shared memory and concurrency. Supervisors and OTP help handle errors by crea

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Josh AdamsMark EricksenCharles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Chris Keathley Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Keathley introduces himself briefly and starts with talking about his work at Bleacher Report - a company specializing in sports culture - with respect to handling web traffic during major sports events and the implications of moving from Rails to Elixir as a backend system. He briefly touches on scaling issues, performance and the services they are running on their website. He then describes his Elixir journey until now and certain new areas he is working with, such as property based testing and distributed systems. He talks about maintaining the Wallaby library which is developed by him, mentions existing and upcoming exciting things in Elixir, and explains a few features of the Distillery and Vapor libraries. He also gives advice to people that are starting to work with Elixir on what must b

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit   Episode Summary In this episode, the panelists, Josh Adams, Mark Erickson and guest Zachary Kessin, author of the book "Building Web Applications with Erlang", discuss types in Erlang and Elixir. Expert inputs with examples of implemented projects that use the Erlang and Elixir data types, were discussed. Here are the highlights of the discussion: Different data types in Erlang and Elixir such as structs, tuples.Differences in the Erlang/Elixir data types to other languages.Using data types to generate error messagesDecoding and validating input data into functions.Getting type information from a running application.Coding patterns and rules engine in Erlang/Elixir.Dialyzer testing tool that validates code and catches any bugs.Changes in Erlang and Elixir code over the yearsElixir ecosystem and the Beam Community Links DialyzerPropErSheriffDialyxirTyped_StructBeam_TypesGB_TreesProgramming Languages on the BEAMA reactive game stack: Using Erlang,

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit Panel Charles Max WoodJosh AdamsMark Ericksen Joined by special guest Ben Schmeckpeper Episode Summary Charles would expressed how in this episode they had a good time learning about “SAX parsers and about some of the issues with migrating and sharing space between systems.” They discussed the benefits of using SAX (Simple API for XML). One of these benefits is that of being event based. Elixir and Ruby are also discussed, with a greater focus on Elixir. One benefits of using Elixir is that of pattern matching. Lots is also shared on “containers” and the pros and cons of these. Links Ben Schmeckpeper TwitterBen Schmeckpeper bloghttps://photos.app.goo.gl/17v3dnxGoYsgkTvn6https://photos.app.goo.gl/zH17oda67NKPr1rL9 xmerl XML parser Erlsom - Erlang library to parse XML documents BERT - Binary ERlang Term BERT and BERT-RPC 1.0 Specification Saxy - an XML SAX parser and encoder in Elixir  Genstage SlaxSAX - Wikipedia Picks Josh: Who gives an F*** ab

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 creditTripleByte offers $1000 signing bonusCachefly Panel: Mark EricksenJosh Adams Special Guest:  Mitchell Hanberg Notes: This episode welcomes guest Mitchell Hanberg, software developer for SEP in Carmel, IN. Currently, he is working with Rails at his job and writes Elixir at home. Mitchell wrote a blog post about how to use Elixir LS with Vim. He is working on integrating ALE and Elixir LS for Vim. The panelists discuss some problems they are having with Elixir LS crashing. The panelists conclude by discussing their favorite features of the Elixir/ALE integration and their favorite features of VIM. Terms: ErlangVS CODE GithubVimALE (asynchronos linting engine)Visual Studio CodeVim LSPNeoVimOniVimintelliJASDFEmacs Picks: Mark https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ Josh https://urbit.org/primer/https://xi-editor.io/xi-editor/ Mitchell Hanberg http://calnewport.com/books/deep-work/https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-Paperwhite-Waterproof-Storage/Spe

Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for $100 credit TripleByte Panel Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Joined by Special Guests: Kevin Moore and Barak Karavani Summary Kevin Moore and Barak Karavani start by introducing Gremlex; they also define graph databases and explain what graph databases are used for. The panel asks Kevin and Barak about their work with chatbots and why they chose to use a graph database for this project. Amazon Neptune is introduced, Kevin and Barak explain why they chose to use Neptune and its role in them using Gremlin. The panel discusses open sourcing. Kevin and Barak share what it was like to open source Gremlex and the benefits they have seen in their company because of it. They discuss licensing and give advice for developers who would like to convince their company to open source. The features of Gremlex are discussed and Kevin and Barak share sources for getting started with Gremlex, including recommendations for running Gremlex and test support recomme

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Sponsors Sentry use the code "devchat" for 2 months free on Sentry small planTripleByte offers a $1000 signing bonusCacheFly Panel Mark EricksenJosh Adams Joined by Special Guest: Anders Smedegaard Pedersen Summary Anders Smedegaard Pedersen shares how he got into Elixir and his experience joining the elixir community. He shares with the panel his initial frustration with the community and his confusion on the “correct” way to do things. He tells the panel of his experience at elixir conf meeting Claudio Ortolina, the advice he got, and how this led him to his first nerves project. Mark Ericksen and Josh Adams give advice to new elixir developers. The three of them compare umbrella structure and poncho structure. Links http://erlang.org/doc/apps/jinterface/jinterface_users_guide.htmlhttps://elixirforum.com/t/do-you-really-need-a-database/4567/15https://smedegaard.io/my-first-nerves-project-pt-2/ElixirConf 2018- My first Nerves Project Bioreactor - David Schainkerhttps://farm.bot/https://hexdocs.pm/ne

Panel: Mark EricksenCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Kamil Lelonek  In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Kamil Lelonek who is a full-stack developer and programmer. Chuck, Mark, and Kamil talk about Elixir, Postgrex, databases, and so much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!  0:48 – Chuck: Hello! Our panel today is Mark and myself. Friendly reminder to listeners: check out my show the DevRev. Our guest today is Kamil Lelonek! 1:23 – Guest. 1:43 – Chuck: Today, we are talking about databases. 1:55 – Guest. 3:10 – Mark: We have your blog that you wrote in our show notes. Talk about your experience with exploring these features? 3:39 – Chuck. 3:46 – Mark: I didn’t know those features are in Postgrex. Can you talk about your experience and your journey? 4:10 – Guest. 6:17 – Mark: I am curious, what problem were you trying to solve? 6:31 – Guest. 8:12 – Mark: I like you saying: rather than modifying the application code itself, you created a separ

Panel: - Mark Ericksen- Josh Adams Special Guest: Edgar Pino    In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://github.com/edgar971?tab=followers who talks with the panel about the latest version of Ecto! They discuss Ecto’s new features and how easy of a transition it was to go from the previous to the newest version. https://github.com/edgar971?tab=followers is a software engineer who currently resides in Utah! Check out today’s episode! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/  1:04 – Mark: Hello! Please give us your background? 1:16 – Guest: I have been in https://elixir-lang.org for the past year or two and I have been living in Utah. 1:48 – Mark: I love the nature and state parks. Winter is coming, so I hope you are ready! 1:58 – Guest: Winter...hopefully it will be great! 2:20 – Panelists and guest go back-and-forth. 2:30 – Mark: Let’s talk about your blog posts about Ecto. What are your new announcements? 2:52 – Guest: Our new version was released a few weeks ag

Panel: - Charles Max Wood- Mark Ericksen Special Guest: Brujo Benavides  In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/elbrujohalcon?lang=en (Argentina) who is a software engineer and uses a mix of Elixir, Erlang, and GO. They talk about the similarities and differences between Erlang and Elixir. Brujo talks about conferences that he organizes. You can find the guest through https://github.com/elbrujohalcon https://twitter.com/elbrujohalcon?lang=en and https://about.me/elbrujohalcon. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/  0:58 – Chuck: Our special guest is Brujo B.! Let’s talk about the topic today, which is: Lessons from a decade of Erlang! We really haven’t talked about https://www.erlang-solutions.com in the past. 1:47 – Mark: Can you give us your introduction, please? 1:55 – Guest: I started programming at 10 years old. I translated a guest to Spanish. Then after school I started working with other languages, until I did my thesis at the u

Panel: - Josh Adams- Charles Max Wood- Mark Ericksen Special Guest: Devon Estes In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/devoncestes?lang=en who is a software developer who uses Elixir. He currently resides in Berlin, Germany and has been working there for the past four years. The panelists and the guest talk about https://elixir-lang.org, testing, and much more! Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/  0:49 – Chuck: I am starting a new show called http://thedevrev.com. Check it out http://thedevrev.com Our special guest today is Devon Estes. https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-018-devon-estes-all-in-on-elixir/ is a past episode you’ve been on – check it out https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/emx-018-devon-estes-all-in-on-elixir/ 1:26 – Devon: I am American but live in Berlin, Germany for about 4 years now. I was a freelancer, but now I am at a “real” job now where I am a software developer using https://elixir-lang.org 1:50 – Chuck: Cool! 2:05 –

Panel: - Mark Ericksen- Nathan (Nate) Hopkins- Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Sophie DeBenedetto In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto?lang=en who is a teacher at the Flatiron School, a software engineer, and creator of Break In. The panelists and Sophie talk about her blog, the Flatiron School, and her background. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/  0:50 – Chuck: Welcome! Our panel is Mark, Nate, and myself. Our special guest, today, is Sophie! Please introduce yourself! 1:32 – Guest: Hi! I am Sophie and I am an engineer who works at the https://flatironschool.com We are growing and fast and offer a lot of different courses. We are an international school working with Elixir and Phoenix. 2:10 – Chuck: You gave us multiple topics: https://github.com/joken-elixir/joken and Elixir Packages. Give us please some background there. 2:33 – Guest: I will talk about the problems we were trying to resolve with https://github.

Panel: - Mark Ericksen- Josh Adams Special Guest: https://twitter.com/petecorey In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://twitter.com/petecorey who is a software developer who resides in Denver, CO (USA). He uses Node, React, and Elixir and currently is working on two big projects. Listen to today’s episode to hear the panelists and Pete talk about Elixir, Node, Bitcoin, and Gen_TCP. Check it out! Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/  0:50 – Mark: Welcome! Our panel is Josh Adams and our guest is https://twitter.com/petecorey! Pete, can you tell people about yourself? 1:12 – https://twitter.com/petecorey I am a software developer and I run a web development consultancy company. I use Node and React, and I use Elixir in my free time, and I blog about that and various projects. 1:38 – Mark: How did you get into Elixir? 1:40 – Guest: Node has its limitations. I found myself not understanding concurrency at all. I saw Elixir and I came around to it when it was around

Panel: Mark EricksenJosh AdamsNate HopkinsCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Eric Oestrich In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Eric Oestrich who is a web developer who resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. He and the panel talk about ExVenture, Gossip, Cowboy, Raisin, Grapevine, and much more! Listen to today’s episode to hear all about it! Finally, check out Eric’s ElixirConf talk and his blog, too! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!  0:51 – Charles introduces the panel. 1:14 – Nate talks about his background. 1:27 – Chuck: My first programming job I worked with Nate. Nate also works now with Eric Berry. We have a special guest and that is Eric Oestrich. Tell us who you are, please! 1:55 – Eric: I work for Smart Logic, LLC. We are a consultancy who has moved to Elixir for the last 2 years. 2:14 – Chuck: Tell us what ExVenture is? 2:46 – Eric: Late 80’s to mid-90’s it’s like a MUD tech space game. Eric goes into detail of what ExVenture is. 3:28 – Panel: Familiar with M

Panel: Mark EricksenJosh AdamsCharles Max Wood Special Guest: Bill Peregoy In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Bill Peregoy who is a software engineer who uses Elixir and loves Graph QL. The panel talks with Bill about his Elixir background, in addition to past and current projects. Check out today’s episode to hear the panel talk about Elixir, Graph QL, code reviews, and much more! Show Topics: 0:00 – Advertisement: Get A Coder Job!  1:07 – Chuck: Tell us who you are and why you are famous? 1:16 – Guest: Here it goes...I have a diverse background. I have a background in hardware and went into software and it got me into Ruby. From there I moved to the software world and in constant contact with a Ruby project. Then I found an Elixir book and thought it was really cool. About a year ago I started working with a consulting company that uses Elixir. They have a cool entrepreneur group. Then about 3 months ago I transferred to another project. 2:41 – Panel: The MBTA? 2:49 – Guest: You t

Panel: - Mark Ericksen- Josh Adams- Charles Max Wood Special Guest: Sasa Juric In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Sasa Juric who is the author of Elixir in Action (2nd edition) and uses Elixir, Erlang, and OTP. He is from Zagreb, Croatia and you can check out his blog https://www.theerlangelist.com! The panel talks about his https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition past and current projects, in addition to configurations, and Elixir. Show Topics: 0:00 – https://devchat.tv/get-a-coder-job/ 0:50 – Chuck: Panel. Our guest is Sasa Juric. Introduce yourself to us please. 1:12 – Guest: I am known for writing my book and my blogs. I am president to the Elixir forum and helping people out. I have been using Elixir for 5 years; in the past I have used C++ and others. 1:46 – Chuck: App env and configuration and sounds like we could talk about more. Let’s start there, though. 1:59 – Guest. 2:03 – Panel: A little background with configuration b/c it’s been a topic in the c

Panel: Mark EricksenEric BerryJosh AdamsNathan Hopkins Special Guest: Andrew Dryga In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with Andrew Dryga who is a software engineer (full-stack), entrepreneur, blockchain architect, and consultant. He currently works for Hammer and previous employers include Contractbook, Nebo #15, BEST Money Transfers among others. He studied at the National Technical University of Ukraine. Check out today’s episode where the panel and guest talk about Sagas and Sage. Show Topics: 1:52 – Our guest today is Andrew Dryga. Why are you into Elixir? 2:04 – Andrew: I have worked in Elixir for a few years. I worked on one of the biggest opensource projects for a while now. 2:42 – Let’s talk about Sage! 2:49 – Andrew: I felt like I was doing the same thing over, and over again. Andrew talks about how he was on a mission to solve a problem that he was having. 3:48 – Panelist: I have run into this problem before, and I am looking forward We have distribution systems and anything

Panel: - https://github.com/brainlid- Eric Berry Special Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scherpenisse In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks with https://www.linkedin.com/in/scherpenisse who is the technical co-founder at https://www.botsquad.com Arjan lives in the Amsterdam area of the Netherlands. Also, he is currently working with Miracle Things. Check out today’s episode where the panel and Arjan talk about his https://www.botsquad.com/2018/04/14/beyond-the-dsl/ and his latest projects. Show Topics: 0:50 – Hello! 1:23 – Is that right – got to drink Heineken in Amsterdam? 1:30 – Arjan: It’s the Bud Light version here in Amsterdam. 1:47 – Panelist: I feel pretty stupid now. 1:58 – Eric: I actually just visited Amsterdam to visit a good friend. The canals were gorgeous! 2:25 – Arjan: I actually worked 7 years in the city center and I cycled to work over the tiny bridges. Now I live outside of Amsterdam. 2:47 – Panelist: You have this article on Bubblescript, which is a creation of your