232: Towering Over Errors
Thinking Elixir Podcast
From Ruby to Elixir: Navigating Error Tracking
This chapter outlines the speaker's transition from Ruby to Elixir, detailing the motivations behind the shift and the challenges faced in adapting to a new programming paradigm. It introduces Tower, a project focused on exception tracking in Elixir apps, highlighting the decoupling of error capturing and notification reporting. The discussion emphasizes the evolution of Elixir's logging system and the development of innovative solutions for efficient error management.
News includes Saša Jurić updating his project for "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" talk with the latest technologies, the release of Phoenix LiveView RC 8 with exciting new features, ErrorTracker v0.5.0's enhancements for Ash applications, and the introduction of the NX MLX backend for Apple Silicon, offering efficient machine learning on Mac hardware. Plus, a new VS Code plugin called "Refactorex" brings robust refactoring capabilities to Elixir. We also interview Gonzalo Rodriguez about Tower, a vendor-agnostic error tracking and reporting tool in Elixir, discussing its creation, functionality, and how it simplifies error management across various services. And more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/232
Elixir Community News
- https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1863889108449337415 – Saša Jurić updated the project used in his "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" talk, rewriting it with the latest versions of Erlang, Elixir, & Phoenix.
- https://github.com/sasa1977/soul_of_erlang_and_elixir – The updated GitHub project for "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" talk, now using the latest technologies.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE – Saša Jurić's 2019 talk "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir" is available on YouTube.
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#100-rc8-2024-12-02 – Phoenix LiveView RC 8 is out, with new features like extended HEEx syntax and more.
- From RC7, there is support for targeting inner and closest query selectors in JS commands.
- https://x.com/crbelaus/status/1861450830181720333 – ErrorTracker v0.5.0 release includes support for Ash applications, better mobile experience, and more.
- https://bsky.app/profile/samrat.me/post/3lbzwr7gxmk2q – The NX MLX backend for Apple Silicon is announced, offering efficient machine learning on Apple hardware.
- https://github.com/elixir-nx/emlx – GitHub repository for NX MLX, Elixir support for the Apple MLX machine learning framework on Apple Silicon.
- MLX is designed by Apple for efficient machine learning on MacOS hardware.
- https://github.com/cocoa-xu/nif_call – Cocoa's
nif_callpackage allows calling Elixir functions from inside a NIF. - https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lc2leowiek26 – Zach Daniel's ElixirConf EU talk on the Ash framework is available on YouTube.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjnPjrCF4rs – Ash: The Story of a Function by Zach Daniel explains why Ash exists and the problems it solves.
- https://github.com/gp-pereira/refactorex – New VS Code plugin "Refactorex" by Gabriel Pereira for refactoring Elixir code with several built-in refactorings.
- https://adventofcode.com/2024/ – Advent of Code is active, with people participating using their favorite programming languages.
- https://notes.club – A platform that hosts a frontend of Livebooks on GitHub, organized by author, likes, and tags, useful for exploring how people are solving Advent of Code problems in Elixir.
- https://github.com/ljgago/kino_aoc – A GitHub repository for a Livebook Smart Cell which aids in solving Advent of Code directly from Livebook.
- https://github.com/nettinho/smaoc – Another Livebook Smart Cell repository on GitHub for Advent of Code that facilitates problem interaction within Livebook.
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Discussion Resources
- https://www.mimiquate.com/blog/tower-universal-and-agnostic-elixir-exception-tracking
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower – The root Tower project
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower_email – Email sending when error encountered (uses Swoosh)
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower_error_tracker
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower_sentry
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower_slack
- Pull requests for the mentioned Bandit updates
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/pull/411
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/pull/417
- https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit/pull/420
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