Panel:
- Charles Max Wood
- Mark Ericksen
- Josh Adams
- Eric Berry
Special Guest: Daniel Spofford In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to
Daniel Spofford who is a Senior Software Engineer through
Very where he uses
Elixir constantly. Daniel and the panel discuss the benefits of working from home, and they talk about different programs, such as Heroku. Check out today’s episode to get more information about Daniel, Very’s team,
Elixir, Phoenix, and many other topics! Show Topics: 1:45 – Depending on the needs of Daniel’s client and/or project it depends on what program he uses. 2:34 – Daniel works from home and lives in North Dakota. 3:35 – There are benefits to working at home. It seems that if you have a healthy living environment, and a supportive family, it can work out very well and could be quite effective. People are naturally more social and when you reach out to someone it seems to be more intentional rather than small social talking in the office. 6:45 – One drawback from working at home, you have to make a point to go out and be social. 8:12 – Log Post. This was interesting to the panel for two different reasons: 1.) Narrative Process and 2.) Logging a lot of people take for granted. When they need information, and cannot find it, then they could get frustrated. 13:25 – Question to consider: “How will these logs be used?” 16:05 – There are different levels of experience among many different people. 16:17 – Daniel goes through the different types of logs, and when and where you would use a certain log. 18:36 – Question for Daniel: “Can you get stuff out of order from your log?” 19:19 – There is a feature written into Phoenix that is quite helpful. Check-out their different plugins. 22:09 – When various processes are trying to log, they call that the log line. 23:35 –
Digital Ocean’s Mid-Roll Advertisement 24:17 – One issue that the panelist has had in the past, is that they have that tagging mechanism – is there a way to do that in Phoenix? 24:39 – There is
metadata. 26:01 – We are talking about tagging and getting specific information there. Is there a way to override in one function how that logging happens? 26:40 – That question makes me thing of – Let it Crash – mentality that people have with Elixir. This is common. You want to let it crash until you care. If you let it crash too far you loose information as you go up. Rather than pattern matching, and hoping that it works, maybe you do you have a case where “x, y, z...,” etc. 30:19 – Daniel’s new log post submitted in June. What are the three things that we should be paying attention to? 30:31 – Daniel talks about what the company,
Very, does to accomplish different projects and such.
Very is always on the lookout to resolve issues right away, because not every situation works for every client/situation. Three things to
Elixir: State in Memory, Scalability, and Hot Code Reloading. These are the buzzwords to
Elixir. 35:37 – One of the panelists does like
Docker now. 36:56 – If you are building a web app, it does not makes sense to do
hot code reloading. 40:11 – Daniel has been playing with additional features, too, such as
ECS. 41:08 – Other programs are mentioned by Chuck. 43:19 – Chuck asks Erick and Mark: “What infrastructure do you guys use for your Elixir stuff?” 43:27 –
Heroku platform. It’s the baby step; and once we hit puberty, we will get out of
Heroku in order to use Phoenix and
Elixir. 45:31 – It is very acceptable to be using
Heroku. Most panelists agree – do not be ashamed to use
Heroku if that’s what you need. 48:10 – A deal from a non-sponsor? Check it out. 50:09 –
Code Badger with Charles Max Wood on Kickstarter! 52:22 – There are benefits of using
Heroku, but there are some disadvantages. 53:27 – One panelist mentions that it is nice to just copy and paste. 53:34 – Anyone heard of
Stacker? It’s worth checking it out! 55:16 – Comments and questions about
Stacker. 58:05 – Let’s go to picks! Links:
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Erick
Daniel
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