Phlexing with Joel Drapper

[00:03:50] Joel tells us about himself, what led him to creating Phlex, and what problem he was trying to solve with it.

[00:08:13] We find out the testing story and how the reception has been with Phlex.

[00:13:45] Andrew brings up how Joel has been doing a lot of performance stuff with Phlex and Joel explains how he’s making the benchmarks and how he’s figuring out all these performance things.

[00:16:53] Joel shares some interesting things he’s tried that were easy and one that had the biggest impact. 

[00:22:04] Joel tells us a good example of something that’s not a smart thing to do in application code, but they’ve decided to do in Phlex.

[00:23:33] Find out what Joel is focused on happening for Phlex in the next few months.

[00:26:08] Since this is Joel’s first big open source project with over one hundred stars, Andrew asks if he had any contributors or if he’s looking for contributors. 

[00:30:02] We hear Joe’s response to someone on Twitter who said, “If’ I’m a Junior, should I learn Phlex?”  

[00:34:17] Joel lets us know the next big thing he wants to work on with Phlex.

[00:36:17] We find out where you can follow Joel online, and he tells us a little about his show called, Naming Things. 

Panelists:

Jason Charnes

Chris Oliver

Andrew Mason

Guest:

Joel Drapper

Sponsor:

Honeybadger

Links:

Jason Charnes Twitter

Chris Oliver Twitter

Andrew Mason Twitter

Joel Drapper Twitter

Joel Drapper GitHub

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