181: FLAME with Chris McCord

In this week's episode, we ignite the exciting world of Elixir with Chris McCord's announcement of FLAME, showcasing a revolutionary approach to serverless with the Phoenix framework. Chris joins us to unravel the inspiration behind FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution and its promise to streamline the developer experience, significantly simplifying elastic compute. We discuss why this isn't just another job queue solution and explore how it effortlessly scales. We cover how other backends can be implemented and learn there's even a Kubernetes option! The FLAME pattern can be implemented in other languages and frameworks too. To avoid FOMO, tune in and ride the wave of Elixir's evolution with us.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/181

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1732368400876249310 – Chris McCord announced FLAME, a library for Phoenix, with a video demo link.
• https://fly.io/blog/rethinking-serverless-with-flame/ – Blog post by Chris McCord detailing the FLAME pattern and library for Phoenix.
• https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1734219297721921968 – Announcement of LiveView Native beta release v0.2.0.beta.1.
• https://github.com/liveview-native/live_view_native/tree/main – GitHub repository for LiveView Native with the beta release.
• https://twitter.com/peregrine/status/1733182408969650579 – Jason Stiebs' tweet about his article on using Machine Learning with Elixir apps.
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/real-world-machine-learning-on-fly-gpu/ – The article by Jason Stiebs on implementing Machine Learning in Hex package searches with Fly.io GPUs.
• https://twitter.com/bernheisel/status/1732487442052083810 – David's date_time_parser tool announcement on Twitter.
• https://github.com/dbernheisel/date_time_parser – GitHub repository for the date_time_parser library, highlighting its latest updates and features.
• https://twitter.com/paraxialio/status/1732382704098763155 – Paraxial 2.0 announcement, a server-side hosted tool for Elixir security.
• https://paraxial.io/blog/introducing-paraxial – Introduction blog post for Paraxial 2.0, presenting its Elixir focused security dashboard and features.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1732368400876249310 – FLAME X/Twitter announcement
• https://fly.io/blog/rethinking-serverless-with-flame/ – Rethinking Serverless with FLAME blog post
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1xt_rkWdic – FLAME YouTube video
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/flame – flame library on GitHub - in PhoenixFramework org
• https://github.com/fly-apps/live_beats
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periscope_(service)
• https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obviate
• https://github.com/chrismccord/atlas

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord – on Twitter
• https://github.com/chrismccord – on Github
• http://chrismccord.com/ – Blog
• https://twitter.com/flydotio – Fly.io on Twitter

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