The Importance of Background Jobs and Open Source Solutions for Startups

News includes Oban Web going open source, making it more accessible for startups, a new community resource featuring over 80 Phoenix LiveView components, interesting insights from a frontend technology survey highlighting Phoenix's potential, the introduction of Klife, a high-performance Elixir + Kafka client, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/227

Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mKp30PNM_Q4 – Parker Selbert announced that the Oban Web dashboard will be open sourced.
• https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/ – The Rails community is working on a database-backed job queue called "Solid Queue".
• Mark shares a personal story about the significance of Oban Web being open sourced for startups.
• https://x.com/shahryar_tbiz/status/1850844469307785274 – An announcement of an open source project with more than 80 Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://github.com/mishka-group/mishka_chelekom – GitHub repository for the open source project with Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://mishka.tools/chelekom/docs/ – Documentation and interactive examples for the Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1850882330249875883 – Zach Daniel mentions that Igniter is effectively used for installing components.
• https://www.youtube.com/live/bHoCMMk2ksc – Dave Lucia will live-stream coding an Igniter installer for OpenTelemetry.
• https://fluxonui.com/getting-started/introduction – Introduction to Fluxon UI, a paid resource with Phoenix LiveView components.
• https://tsh.io/state-of-frontend/#frameworks – Results of a frontend technology survey where Phoenix is mentioned.
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSk21zn8fFZAa5UdY76ASWAwyu_xWFR6u – YouTube playlist of Elixir Stream Week presentations.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/2024-10-21-elixir-stream-week-five-days-five-streams-five-elixir-experts-online/66482/17 – Forum post about Elixir Stream Week featuring presentations and streams.
• https://elixirforum.com/t/klife-a-kafka-client-with-performance-gains-over-10x/67040 – Introduction of Klife, a new Elixir + Kafka client with improved performance.
• https://github.com/oliveigah/klife – GitHub repository for the Klife Kafka client in Elixir.
• https://github.com/BeaconCMS/beacon/blob/main/ROADMAP.md – Roadmap for the BeaconCMS project.
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1850106541887689133?s=12&t=ZvCKMAXrZFtDX8pfjW14Lw – José Valim clarifies that Elixir and LSP remain separate projects with independent release schedules.
• https://flutterfoundation.dev/blog/posts/we-are-forking-flutter-this-is-why/ – Blog post about Flutter forking into Flock to promote open-source community development.

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