Thinking Elixir Podcast

We talk about ways we can all contribute to building a healthy Elixir community. The Elixir community is a welcoming, encouraging and helpful place and we want to help keep it that way! We talk about common problems facing maintainers, tips for engaging productively, the value of expressing appreciation, and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/67 Elixir Community News https://www.erlang.org/news/149 – Erlang/OTP 24.1 was released https://github.com/livebook-dev/nerves_livebook – Nerves Livebook is now part of the Livebook organization on GitHub https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4ZtdiDIxP_rPMQ5VmVhs4CKJ – ElixirConf EU 2021 keynote videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sNmJtoKDCo – Saša Jurić's presentation on Clarity https://twitter.com/CodeBEAMio/status/1441149132278665235 – Code Beam America switched back to virtual https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1441020298141253633 – Phoenix.HTML from 3.0.0-3.0.3 had a security vulnerability. Please update to 3.0.4+ https://hex.pm/packages/phoenix_html – Phoenix HTML package page https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.6-released – Phoenix 1.6.0 was released! This includes the esbuild by default change. https://fly.io/blog/how-we-got-to-liveview/ – Chris McCord's post telling the story of "How We Got to LiveView" https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/ – Reminder of the PETAL stack and how central LiveView is to it. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir#issues-tracker-management – Explanation of the Elixir's Issue Tracker Management policy https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir#proposing-new-features – Resource for proposing Elixir features https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues – Elixir's well maintained issue tracker https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html – How to Report Bugs Effectively https://opensource.guide/best-practices/ – GitHub's Best Practices for Maintainers https://go.darrenhardy.com/darrendaily/ – Darren Hardy daily email messages. https://darrenhardy.cDarren Daily-om/darrendaily-on-demand – Podcast form of the daily messages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z6cFvXb9_A – YouTube video of the "jerk" segment called "A Simple Way to Change Other People" https://twitter.com/adamwathan – Adam Wathan, maintainer of TailwindCSS Points to consider when interacting with different projects and maintainers. Every project is different. Maintainers work in their spare time. They are not obligated to help you. Make it easier for them to reproduce problems. Provide good bug reports. Keep your emotions out of it. https://twitter.com/tylerayoung/status/1438824261947363329 – Tyler Young's comments on importance of maintainers setting a tone. https://twitter.com/redrapids/status/1438111195886673929 – Bruce Tate's call to action. Let people and project know you appreciate their work. Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Kai Wern Choong about his experience with tracing performance problems in production. We talk about what “tracing” means in a BEAM system, available tools like recon, great resources for learning how the tools work and general approaches for troubleshooting live production Elixir systems. Kai also shares his Livebook notebook setup for demonstrating tracing techniques in an interactive way. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/66 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/hexpm/status/1439268469296570368 – New version of Hex released that fixes issues with version downgrades and slow version resolutions. Run mix local.hex to upgrade. https://hexdocs.pm/credo/1.6.0-rc.0/changelog.html#1-6-0 – Credo 1.6.0 was released with new "First Run Mode" https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix/status/1438222537301843970 – Removing Phoenix compiler config change can speed up compilation times when on up-to-date versions https://github.com/Qqwy/elixir-type_check – New library called TypeCheck https://blog.oestrich.org/2021/09/introducing-aino/ – Eric Osterich is experimenting with an alternative HTTP framework for Elixir https://github.com/oestrich/aino – The Aino project https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/14/logistics-startup-stord-raises-90m-in-kleiner-perkins-led-round-becomes-a-unicorn-and-acquires-another-company/ – Stord, an Elixir company, raised $90M and became a "unicorn" https://spawnfest.org/ – SpawnFest 2021 happened https://github.com/spawnfest/eflambe – SpawnFest submission - rapid generation of flamegraphs https://github.com/spawnfest/Sketch – SpawnFest submission - library for creating generative art with Elixir https://github.com/spawnfest/lotus – SpawnFest submission - Lotus is a Surface UI wrapper for UIKit https://github.com/spawnfest/Discovery – SpawnFest submission - Platform for hosting realtime, stateful servers with zero downtime deployment and horizontal scaling on Kubernetes https://github.com/spawnfest/crash – SpawnFest submission - Crash is a simple (distributed) docker-on-docker Continuous Integration system written in Elixir Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://kaiwern.com/posts/2021/06/27/debugging-with-tracing-in-elixir-with-recon_trace/ https://www.naluri.life/ https://ferd.github.io/recon/recon.html https://hex.pm/packages/recon https://twitter.com/kw7oe/status/1409126300636254219 https://github.com/kw7oe/livebook-notebooks/blob/main/debugging-with-tracing-in-elixir-with-recon_trace.livemd – Livebook notebook showing tracing examples https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sR9h3DZAA74 – Debugging Live Systems on the BEAM talk by Jeffery Utter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OR2Gc6_Le2U – Operable Erlang and Elixir talk by Fred Hebert (skip to 25:51, where he started talking about tracing) https://kaiwern.com/posts/2020/11/02/debugging-with-tracing-in-elixir/ – Tracing with dbg modules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_(software) https://erlang.org/doc/man/dbg.html – dbg module in Erlang :dbg.fun2ms https://kubernetes.io/blog/2017/12/using-ebpf-in-kubernetes/ https://github.com/cilium/cilium https://opentelemetry.io/docs/erlang/ https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-01-01/learn-ebpf-tracing.html https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/ https://hex.pm/packages/recon_ex https://erlang-in-anger.com/ – Erlang in Anger (Chapter 9) https://www.thegreatcodeadventure.com/testing-genservers-with-erlang-trace/ – Testing GenServers with Erlang Trace http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/04/how-to-trace-elixir-nodes-with-erlyberly/ – How to trace Elixir nodes with Erlyberly - Plataformatec Blog http://erlang.org/doc/man/seq_trace.html#sequential-tracing – Seq_trace http://erlang.org/doc/man/erlang.html#trace-3 – Erlang:trace https://github.com/andytill/erlyberly – Erlang tracing for the masses https://github.com/tatsuya6502/recon_ex – Elixir wrapper for Recon, tools to diagnose Erlang VM safely in production Guest Information https://twitter.com/kw7oe – on Twitter https://github.com/kw7oe/ – on Github https://kaiwern.com/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Elixir Core Team Member Aleksei Magusev about how he got involved in Elixir, what it’s like being on the Core Team, some of his contributions, areas in Elixir that interest him, and his tips for learning a new programming language! He also shares some of his interests outside of computing. Meet Aleksei! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/65 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/issues/1617 – Initial proposal to bring slots to LiveView components. https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub/status/1437034456037068804 – Book Club started "Elixir in Action" https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/09/supabase-raises-30m-for-its-open-source-insta-backend/ – Supabase, which uses Elixir in their "realtime" project raised $30m https://github.com/supabase/realtime – Realtime project on github https://twitter.com/BrooklinJMyers/status/1436744292391923714 – New Podcast "Elixir Newbie" https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1436386868539662338 – Fly.io is now a sponsor of the Livebook project! https://github.com/elixir-desktop/android-example-app/ – Android Application that embeds Elixir, uses a Webview to connect locally to the server, and renders using LiveView! https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11246 – Mix Formatter Plugins PR ElixirConf EU has happened! https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.3 – Elixir 1.12.3 released Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://forzafootball.com/ https://tech.forzafootball.com/blog/binary-parsing-optimizations-in-elixir – Blog post by Aleksei Magusev on the Forza Football site https://github.com/celluloid/celluloid https://racket-lang.org/ https://www.rubinius.com/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130422214345/http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ – The Matasano Crypto Challenge isn't online anymore - this is from the Wayback Machine https://hexdocs.pm/ex_unit/ExUnit.CaptureLog.html https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/3390 – Early version of the capture_log work which was later simplified https://github.com/kraftjectory/forgery https://hex.pm/packages/forgery https://hex.pm/packages/mint https://hex.pm/packages/finch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_stampede https://github.com/lexmag/cashmere – Caching library Aleksei created and open sourced https://cassandra.apache.org/_/index.html https://andrealeopardi.com/ https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/4430 – PR adding difference highlighting to ExUnit output https://github.com/lexmag/elixir-style-guide – He wrote the very early version of Elixir Style Guide Guest Information https://twitter.com/lexmag – on Twitter https://github.com/lexmag/ – on Github Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Bram Verburg about an important root certificate expiring at the end of September and how this impacts your Elixir and Erlang projects! Bram helps explain where this IS and IS NOT a problem. He also explains the different update options available. We also get Bram’s security perspectives from his years of focused study and contributions in the Elixir and Erlang communities. A great resource for understanding the current certificate situation and for protecting your Elixir projects! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/64 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer – New Elixir-Nx project called Explorer released Explorer summarized with "When combined with other Nx libraries, Explorer is like a super-powerful spreadsheet" https://twitter.com/cigrainger/status/1433934973682139139 – Twitter announcement of Explorer https://github.com/hauleth/mix_unused – mix_unused is a compiler tracer for detecting unused public functions. https://hexdocs.pm/prom_ex/readme.html – PromEx sees a new 1.4.x release https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.17.0 – Rebar had a new release 3.17.0 https://github.com/woylie/ecto_nested_changeset – Ecto Nested Changeset project https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/3731 – Discussion that lead to pulling out as a separate library Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://blog.voltone.net/post/29 – Initial post describing the problem https://blog.voltone.net/post/30 – Updates and mitigation recommendations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jzcPnsE4nQ – Learn you some 'ssl' for much security! - ElixirConfEU 2019 https://erlef.github.io/security-wg/secure_coding_and_deployment_hardening/inets https://blog.voltone.net/post/27 – CVE-2020-35733 discovered in December https://blog.voltone.net/post/28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0DuAse9tK8 https://pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang2/programming-erlang-2nd-edition/ OTP 24.0.4 and later is good OTP 23.3.4.6 and later is good https://github.com/dlesl/erqwest https://hex.pm/packages/mint https://xkcd.com/927/ – The referenced XKCD comic https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/lets-encrypt-comes-up-with-workaround-for-abandonware-android-devices/ https://github.com/elixir-mint/mint/pull/328 https://blog.voltone.net/post/28 https://blog.voltone.net/post/27 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed https://istio.io/ https://hex.pm/packages/hackney https://hex.pm/packages/finch https://blog.voltone.net/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/voltonez – on Twitter https://github.com/voltone/ – on Github https://blog.voltone.net/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Peter Ullrich about his experience sending SMS messages from a Raspberry Pi Zero using Nerves. We cover what went well, what didn’t and get a glimpse into the current state of Nerves for a newbie when dealing with hardware. Peter also tried Livebook for Nerves and had a great experience with that. We discuss the challenges of hardware systems dealing with the “real world” but see how Elixir makes the process easier to model and think about. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/63 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/ex_doc/pull/1386#issuecomment-905623723 – LiveBook support in ExDocs https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/1.6.0-rc.0/fly.html#goals – Fly.io deployment guide in Phoenix documentation https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/blob/main/oban.exs – Wojtek Mach's Mix.install script using the Oban library and database tables https://github.com/smartlogic/augur – SmartLogic open sourced Augur library for helping Elixir systems that send SMS messages https://elixir-broadway.org/ – Broadway library has it's own website https://twitter.com/mcrumm/status/1431316375893467137 – Michael Crumm shares how live_session/3 are 2x-4x faster for him https://twitter.com/atyborska93/status/1431670143483060230 – Angelika Tyborska shares that Exercism v3 is up with a new Elixir track https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/050-exercism-io-and-elixir-with-angelika-tyborska/ – Previous interview with Angelika Tyborska about the Elixir track in Exercism v3 https://exercism.org/tracks/elixir/ – Excercism.io's Elixir track https://twitter.com/voltonez/status/1432208014103220224 – Erlang updates needed for expiring root CA certificate support https://blog.voltone.net/post/30 – Bram Verburg's detailed write up on the needed updates https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html – Elixir getting started docs https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Kernel.html – Elixir's docs in HexDocs https://elixirschool.com/en/ – Elixir School, good free resource for learning Elixir https://thinkingelixir.com/available-courses/pattern-matching/ – ThinkingElixir free Pattern Matching course for learning Elixir Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://www.peterullrich.com/sending-text-messages-with-nerves https://www.peterullrich.com/using-livebook-with-nerves https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explain-blockchain/id1326636335 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyjSW46TDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrpQHZcy3CI&ab_channel=CraftHubEvents https://nerves.group/ https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook Guest Information https://twitter.com/PJUllrich – on Twitter https://github.com/PJUllrich/ – on Github http://peterullrich.com/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Chris McCord about his recent announcement that he’s moved to work at Fly.io! We cover what this means for the Phoenix project and ongoing Phoenix development work. He shares why he’s excited about the Fly platform which includes how it replaces his need for a CDN! We also talk about the new Phoenix 1.6 release and all the goodness coming there. This release includes the HEEX engine for validated HTML at compile time, making the auth generators official, a new mailer generator, and the move away from Webpack to esbuild. We go deeper on what the move to esbuild means for existing projects before hearing where Chris wants to put his focus next. We covered a lot, so buckle up! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/62 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11184 – Another improvement made to mix xref graph to find why module A depends on module B. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11201 – Recompile only necessary deps whenever config/lock change https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/513 – IEx and Livebook both get improved intellisense (code completion) for structs and sigils. https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1429835571745153024 – PromEx sponsored by SmartLogic https://twitter.com/mitchhanberg/status/1429854685087797248 – Wallaby sponsored by SmartLogic https://blog.erlang.org/scalable-ets-counters/ – Lukas Larsson from the Erlang OTP team, wrote a blog post about using ETS tables for distributed counters. https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/4719 – OTP 24.1 gets better float to string support 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/1428821074553315332 – Chris McCord announced he joined Fly.io https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#changelog-for-v16 – Phoenix 1.6 changelog https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view – Phoenix LiveView 0.16 released https://github.com/surface-ui/surface https://twitter.com/MarlusSaraiva https://github.com/surface-ui/surface_catalogue https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-phoenix https://github.com/heartcombo/devise https://github.com/swoosh/swoosh https://esbuild.github.io/ 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 Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally. We share our perspectives on Elixir, how it’s different from the languages we’ve used before and the unique value we get from it. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61 Elixir Community News https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-kotlin-7c8410795e4b – Brex announcement they are moving to Kotlin first https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0160-2021-08-10 – LiveView 0.16 released https://github.com/phoenixframework/vscode-phoenix – VSCode support for HEEx is coming in new extension https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1700/files – nvim-treesitter gets HEEx support https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/136 – ElixirLS 0.8.0 released https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.18.0 – Erlang LS 0.18.0 released https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-processing-in-elixir/ – Book "Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir" released by PragProg https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub – Book club is reading through this book right now if you're interested https://github.com/wyeworks/boom – WyeWorks has an open source library called "boom" that was inspired by the ExceptionNotification Rack/Rails gem https://github.com/mcrumm/live_upload_example/pull/7 – Example showing how to crop a photo using the croppr.js library and LiveView https://slab.com/blog/announcing-delta-for-elixir/ – Slab open-sourced their Operational Transforms library that pairs nicely with Quill, the JavaScript collaborative editor https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir – Slab's OT project https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/048-ecto-associations-with-sheharyar-naseer/ – Interview with Sheharyar Naseer from Slab Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/059-how-elixir-came-to-spotify-with-joel-kemp/ https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley/status/1425471653014876163 https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/ https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/ https://github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast/ https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-microservices/ Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Marc-André Lafortune about reducing Elixir project compile times. On larger projects, when a single file like a view template is changed and over 100 files get recompiled, there is something wrong. Marc-André explains how he identified the problems in his project and contributed to Elixir’s mix xref tool making it easier for us to find those problems in our own projects! We cover how these tooling improvements were used to improve the upcoming Phoenix 1.6 and Elixir 1.13! An additional mix xref flag was added to run CI checks on our code to prevent accidentally adding code that slows our compile times. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/60 Elixir Community News https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted-language-love-dread – Elixir is number 4 among the "most loved" languages on Stack Overflow's developer survey https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#section-top-paying-technologies-top-paying-technologies – Elixir is number 3 in highest paid languages on Stack Overflow's developer survey https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1645 – Neovim adds tree-sitter (a syntax parser) support for the Surface library https://github.com/surface-ui/surface_tailwind/issues/1#issuecomment-884981076 – Surface Catalogue to continue and may redesign the UI using TailwindCSS https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/4403#issuecomment-895354673 – Phoenix 1.6 possibly released this week? Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1421912595456569351 – Thread talks about the change https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/Hmg5y8S3v4E/m/FVK50RWBAQAJ?pli=1 – Elixir core mailing list where feature was discussed https://hexdocs.pm/mix/master/Mix.Tasks.Xref.html#module-understanding-the-printed-graph https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11044 – Add "--label compile-connected" option to mix xref graph https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11048 – Add "--fail-above" option to mix xref making it good for CI systems https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11049 – Support multiple sinks and sources in mix xref graph https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11162 – Update docs https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/11080 – Rely on modification time and hash to determine modified sources https://dashbit.co/blog/speeding-up-re-compilation-of-elixir-projects – Blog post on recompilations https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/4408 – Example 1 of sneaky macros introducing compile-time dependencies https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/issues/4409 – Example 2 of sneaky macros introducing compile-time dependencies https://exercism.io/tracks/elixir https://github.com/rbenv/rbenv https://rvm.io/ https://www.super.mx/ https://xkcd.com/303/ --label compile-connected --fail-above Guest Information https://twitter.com/malafortune – on Twitter https://github.com/marcandre/ – on Github http://blog.marc-andre.ca/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

We talk with Joel Kemp about his experience introducing Elixir at Spotify. We learn about the concurrency problems he had with the default stack and how that was solved with the BEAM. We talk about the inertia that larger companies have that make introducing any change harder. Joel compares the process to running a marathon and shares some tactics used to help build internal support and interest. Fascinating insight into a well known company and how Elixir is helping internally. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/59 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCv-QRhbg07E3pe58eQauGibLv0A1fYm8 – ElixirWizard's Conference 2021 videos are on YouTube. https://pragprog.com/titles/lmelixir/testing-elixir/ – Testing Elixir book. 40% off promo code "LMELIXIRCOMPLETE" https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1421912595456569351 – Elixir 1.13 gets "mix xref graph" improvements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transitive_dependency – Transitive Dependency info https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1420810455854067723 – esbuild fixed last technical hurdle for use in Phoenix https://github.com/josevalim/phx_esbuild_demo/commit/0546034f26ac5d58d12867e5843037ce1b2d4dd1 – Jose Valim shows how to switch to esbuild on a project [Oban and Oban Pro updates released improving time scheduling](Oban and Oban Pro updates released improving time scheduling) – https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1421169698713088001 https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/07/29/bootstraping-a-multiplayer-server-with-elixir-at-x-plane/ – Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir at X-Plane blog post https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/035-x-planes-elixir-mmo-with-tyler-young/ – Our previous interview with Tyler Young about X-Plane and Elixir Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://medium.com/elixir-learnings/learnings-using-phoenix-liveview-for-internal-web-applications-38711193ca13 https://mrjoelkemp.medium.com/jvm-struggles-and-the-beam-4d9c58547410 https://www.spotify.com/ https://www.lifeatspotify.com/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/mrjoelkemp – on Twitter https://github.com/mrjoelkemp – on Github https://mrjoelkemp.medium.com/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

After covering the news we catch up on what Elixir things we've been thinking about and working on. Mark brings up using Livebook as a Business Intelligence tool for doing analysis of a running application's data. David brings up how to design safe data migrations in Elixir systems, examples from the Rails ecosystem and how he's thinking about that for Elixir. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/58 Elixir Community News https://2021.elixirconf.com/#up-next – ElixirConf talks are being accepted! Speakers not yet fully announced. https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/453 – Livebook gets "hover contexts". https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases/tag/v0.2.16 – Nerves Livebook updated release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lUa7PACV8 – Elixir Roundtable Number 4 https://github.com/CargoSense/dart_sass – Mix wrapper around dart-sass Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://fly.io/blog/better-business-intelligence-in-elixir-with-livebook/ https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/elixir-livebook-connection-to-your-app/#business-intelligence-through-livebook – Fly.io docs for doing BI with Livebook to running apps https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook – Livebook project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence – Business Intelligence or BI https://www.metabase.com/ – OpenSource BI tool https://rubygems.org/gems/strong_migrations – RubyGem StrongMigrations Guest Information No special guests this time. Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward