
149: Elixir's new Unified Logger
Thinking Elixir Podcast
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The Unification of Erlang and Elixir Loggers
In structured logging, you log a map. In most cases, it will be a map in Alexir. So that is a text that is readable by the human operator. But for the machine, it means nothing. It is like just a blob of whatever and you probably would need to somehow parse it or whatever to extract that information. And then on the other side of the pipe, there is a guy who is parsing it again from human format to machine readable format. I had that idea to provide more of communication between machine and machine in Alexir,. Like provide output from the compiler that would be readable by the GitHub.
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