241: A LiveView Debugger and Gigalixir

Feb 18, 2025

Tim Knight, CTO of Gigalixir, shares his insights on the evolution of deployment for Elixir applications. He discusses the new LiveDebugger tool, enhancing debugging for Phoenix LiveView apps. Tim also dives into Gigalixir's features, focusing on easy application management and scalability. He emphasizes the significance of comprehensive cloud services and the unique customer support philosophy aimed at Elixir developers. The conversation covers exciting new tools and strategies that make the Elixir development experience more robust and user-friendly.

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INSIGHT

Private Hex Registries

Artifix enables the creation of private Hex registries on S3 and CloudFront.
It offers a CI/CD system for managing private Elixir packages.

ADVICE

Enhanced Code Diffs

Use Difftastic or Delta for enhanced code diffs with syntax highlighting.
These tools offer improvements over standard git diff for readability.

ADVICE

Easy Elixir Deployment

Gigalixir offers streamlined Elixir deployment through a 'Git push' workflow.
It simplifies scaling and DevOps, acting as your team.

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