Thinking Elixir Podcast

Paulo Valente introduces Metal support in Nx for Elixir devs, while Chris McCord presents deploying distributed Elixir apps with YugabyteDB. Also covers Paraxial.io's free plan, Polo REST client release, and Peep library updates. Elixir Wizards crew previews ElixirConf 2024, discussing training classes, networking tips, and must-attend strategies for the event.

German Velasco, a software developer known for Elixir contributions, discusses transitioning from Rails to Elixir, Test-Driven Development philosophy, creating Elixir Streams, and upcoming ElixirConf talk. Topics cover Elixir updates, Livebook enhancements, Phoenix tips, Gleam features, and Protos library update.

Chris Gregori, Creator of Bloom UI, joins the hosts to discuss the launch of Bloom, an extension of Phoenix core components simplifying UI development for Elixir and LiveView projects. They talk about features like avatars and marketing layouts, potential future directions, contributions from the community, and a strong emphasis on accessibility. Plus, updates on Livebook 0.13.x release, viral projects, and more!

Topics include using setup-beam for GitHub actions, reducing SDK API surfaces, Ash's UUIDv7 support, custom admin panel Backpex, SaladUI for LiveView components, AI testing of function names by Jose Valim, and ElixirConf 2024 talks preview.

José Valim, Elixir creator, discusses Elixir 1.17 updates, Phoenix Playground for single-file apps, set-theoretic types for behaviors, Igniter project enhancements. Plus, Phoenix and Inertia.js collaboration, Nx Scholar's new machine learning version, and cutting-edge developments in the Elixir community. Exciting insights into the latest Elixir ecosystem tools, machine learning projects, and unconventional Elixir conference talks.

News includes the release of Poison v6.0.0, making it faster than ever, the discontinuation of the Lumen/Firefly project, and a new accessibility testing library for Elixir web apps. José Valim discusses managing client and server state with Phoenix LiveView, and there's a showcase of an AI Emoji generator written in Elixir. Tickets for ElixirConfUS 2024 are now available with exciting options for training and speakers, plus a surprise announcement for the event's emcee, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/207 Elixir Community News https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/s/V5StIsdcbP – Poison v6.0.0 release announcement discussing its performance improvements. https://github.com/devinus/poison – Poison v6.0.0 GitHub repository. https://gist.github.com/devinus/afb351ae45194a6b93b6db9bf2d4c163 – Benchmark comparisons of Poison with other JSON libraries. https://github.com/devinus/poison/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Poison v6.0.0 CHANGELOG detailing new features and improvements. https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/s/ciFzDvfzZL – Announcement that Lumen/Firefly project is discontinued. https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1dca6sl/comment/l7yw6sd/ – Brian Cardarella explains why DockYard discontinued the Lumen/Firefly project. https://x.com/src_rip/status/1800210232150470999 – Highlighting a new feature in Elixir 1.17. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.17.0-rc.1/Kernel.html#get_in/2-working-with-structs – Kernel.get_in/2 now works with structs in Elixir 1.17. https://mas.to/@angelikatyborska/112590587923208917 – New A11yAudit test library for automated accessibility testing in Elixir. https://angelika.me/2024/06/10/automated-accessibility-testing-for-elixir-web-apps/ – Blog post about implementing automated accessibility checks in Elixir web apps. https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/50 – Podcast episode with Angelika Tyborska. https://x.com/charliebholtz/status/1700170783589277996 – AI Emoji generator written in Elixir by Charlie Holtz. https://github.com/cbh123/emoji – GitHub repository for the AI Emoji generator. https://dashbit.co/blog/web-apps-have-client-and-server-state – José Valim's blog post on handling client and server state in web applications with Phoenix LiveView. https://github.com/woutdp/live_svelte – Svelte inside Phoenix LiveView for seamless reactivity. https://x.com/j_tormey/status/1799859208709677512 – Justin created a LiveView Slack clone to showcase Phoenix and LiveView capabilities. https://github.com/fly-apps/live_beats – LiveBeats improvement and bug fixes in Phoenix LiveView. https://x.com/ElixirConf/status/1799829176427463035 – Announcement of ElixirConfUS 2024 tickets availability. David will be the emcee for ElixirConfUS 2024. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!

Ellie Fairholm and Josep Giralt D'Lacoste discuss 'Engineering Elixir Applications' and the concept of 'BeamOps.' They talk about unique DevOps challenges in the BEAM ecosystem, insights on the writing process, and future plans for the book.

In this episode, we delve into the latest developments including the release of Elixir 1.17-rc0, featuring significant type system improvements and new functions like DateTime.shift. We also discuss some unexpected compiler and JIT advancements in OTP 27, which are already showing performance boosts. Elixir celebrated its 12th birthday and the Erlang docs completed their migration to ExDoc, enhancing accessibility and integration. Tune in for these insightful updates and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/205 Elixir Community News https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6rJVT6XXsfTo1JI?site=stackoverflow.com – StackOverflow Developer Survey link. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.17.0-rc.0 – Release tag for Elixir 1.17-rc0. https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/v1.17.0-rc.0/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for Elixir 1.17-rc0. https://x.com/marpo60/status/1793993127939969361 – Marcelo Dominguez highlights advantages of the new type system in Elixir 1.17. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/DateTime.html#shift/3 – Documentation for the DateTime.shift function in Elixir. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.17.0-rc.0/Kernel.html#to_timeout/1 – Documentation to convert durations to milliseconds in Elixir 1.17-rc0. https://www.erlang.org/news/170#compiler-and-jit-improvements – News about OTP 27 compiler and JIT improvements. https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1795044358850298343 – Discussion about a 12.5% speed improvement in the Oban test suite. https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/8469 – Regression of :ets.select in OTP 27 mentioned. https://www.erlang.org/doc/readme.html – New home for Erlang documentation. Get clear on old Elixir Mix episodes being released as new. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29816472/ – The Thinking Elixir Podcast on IMDB?? https://dashbit.co/blog/req-v0.5 – Announcement of Req v0.5 with improved testing support and error handling. https://gleam.run/news/fault-tolerant-gleam/ – Release notes for Gleam v1.2.0, focusing on fault-tolerant compilation. https://x.com/jacob_luetzow/status/1794075125202956353 – José Valim celebrating Elixir's 12th Birthday. https://www.youtube.com/live/epKeT8-hafE – Video of José Valim discussing Elixir on its 12th Birthday. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Tyler Young - @TylerAYoung Tyler Young on Fediverse - @tylerayoung@fosstodon.org Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!

In this episode of the Thinking Elixir podcast, we sit down with Marcelo Dominguez, the driver behind the new "Blend" library, which assists Elixir library developers in testing their projects against multiple versions of dependencies. Marcelo explains the genesis of Blend and the inspiration from the Rubygem "appraisal." He discusses how Blend tackles the common headache of dependency version clashes and integrates smoothly with CI systems to isolate and report specific compatibility issues. We learn how it works under-the-hood and helps library maintainers more easily keep their promises of supporting a library used in diverse environments. We cover the motivations, complexities, and real-world applications of Blend and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/204 Elixir Community News https://www.erlang.org/blog/highlights-otp-27/ – OTP 27 release highlights https://www.erlang.org/news/170 – OTP 27 release news https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-27.0 – OTP 27 release on GitHub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling – OCSP stapling explained https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1791176778989424850 – Chris McCord shares upcoming Cockroach DB support in Phoenix 1.7 https://www.cockroachlabs.com/ – Cockroach Labs business solutions https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach – CockroachDB GitHub project https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/licensing-faqs.html – Cockroach licensing FAQs https://x.com/josevalim/status/1792642875454259243 – José Valim's tweet on Elixir's 12th birthday celebration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epKeT8-hafE – YouTube livestream celebrating Elixir's 12th birthday José teased that an Elixir v1.17 RC might be ready. https://ew.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-reboot-margot-robbie-movie-exclusive-8651023 – Pirates of the Caribbean reboot discussion... are we that old? https://elixirforum.com/t/ash-framework-3-0/63488 – Ash Framework 3.0 release https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/s/HMUeyk8Ot3 – LiveToast discussion on Reddit https://github.com/srcrip/live_toast – LiveToast GitHub project https://toast.src.rip – LiveToast demo website https://nerves-project.typeform.com/sotnn-2024 Nerves is an open-source platform for building and deploying production embedded systems using Elixir. https://nerves-project.org/ – Nerves project website https://fly.io/phoenix-files/my-favorite-new-liveview-feature/ – Explanation of the useful new LiveView feature JS.toggle_class. ExDoc light mode possibly getting revamped. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/protocols.html – Example of current dark mode on ExDoc even in light mode. https://erick.navarro.io/blog/simple-obs-client-in-elixir/ – Erick Navarro's post on controlling OBS using Elixir and websockets. https://obsproject.com/ – OBS - Open Broadcaster Software Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://github.com/mimiquate/blend https://rubygems.org/gems/appraisal – Blend was inspired by the Rubygem Appraisal https://github.com/mimiquate/blend?tab=readme-ov-file#Motivation – Motivation for creating the Blend library https://github.com/mimiquate/candlex https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-jobs/using-a-matrix-for-your-jobs https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug_crypto/tags https://github.com/rack/rack-attack https://www.mimiquate.com/ https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/blob/main/mix.exs#L54-L58 – Example of how multiple lockfiles are solved in Plug https://github.com/surface-ui/surface/blob/main/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L54-L56 – Example of how multiple lockfiles are solved in Surface https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/issues/1041 – Example of Oban issue from underlying dep version change https://github.com/sorentwo/oban/commit/f8d3478c27aea56ab01fcc42f13668f4a3516564 – Example where Oban's Ecto version needed to lock to Ecto v3.10 to support materialized cte Guest Information Marcelo Dominguez https://twitter.com/marpo60 – on Twitter https://github.com/marpo60/ – on Github https://www.mimiquate.com/ – Mimiquate agency that published Blend Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!

News includes Phoenix LiveView hitting 1.0 soon, with thoughtful comparisons to the broader web development industry and detailed changelog insights. Theo reacts positively to the release from a React and JS perspective, highlighting its significance. José Valim's keynote at ElixirConf EU 2024 revisits the famous "Gang of Four" design patterns and their relevance to Elixir today. Chris McCord introduces the innovative World Page Speed Test using FLAME, illustrating its ease of use and benefits over traditional solutions. Ash 3.0 is officially released after 46 RC releases. Additionally, Oban support is moving to ElixirForum to improve searchability, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/203 Elixir Community News https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-liveview-1.0-released – Phoenix LiveView is hitting 1.0 soon with thoughtful comparisons to the broader web development industry. https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.0.0-rc.0/changelog.html – Backward incompatible changes for Phoenix LiveView 1.0 along with bug fixes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOk67eT3fpg – Theo reacts positively to the Phoenix LiveView release, discussing it from the React and JS perspective. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agkXUp0hCW8 – Keynote by José Valim on design patterns in Elixir at ElixirConf EU 2024. https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1790354042243203283 – José Valim discusses design patterns in Elixir revisiting the "Gang of Four" patterns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GICJ42OyBGg – Chris McCord’s ElixirConf EU keynote on FLAME and its applications. https://worldpagespeed.fly.dev/ – Chris McCord’s "World Page Speed Test" tool using FLAME. https://fly.io/phoenix-files/world-page-speed-test-elastic-scale-with-flame/ – Chris McCord’s blog post on World Page Speed Test and FLAME on Fly.io. https://twitter.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1775516026551099852 – Announcement of Ash 3.0 release after 46 RC releases. https://hex.pm/packages/ash – Ash Framework version 3.0 final release details. https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1790007674077073474 – Oban support is moving to ElixirForum for better searchability and visibility, away from Slack. https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1788181209530466518 – Oban hot tip on managing exception messages for better exception reporting. https://www.elixir-tools.dev/news/the-elixir-tools-update-vol-6/ – NextLS 0.21.0 released with new features like alias-refactor workspace command, completions, snippets, and more. Followup from a comment last week on the difference between pattern-matching empty keyword lists and empty maps, including speed improvements in OTP 26 and 27. https://erlangforums.com/t/matching-empty-map-performance-of-map-size/3572 – Discussion on matching empty map performance. https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/1.14/naming-conventions.html#length-and-size – Naming conventions in Elixir related to length and size. https://github.com/mimiquate/blend – New Elixir library "Blend" helps library maintainers test against different versions of dependencies. https://rubygems.org/gems/appraisal – Blend library appears to be inspired by the Ruby gem “appraisal”. https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/1790072050855588265 – Amazon AWS S3 will stop charging for unauthorized requests, being deployed to regions currently. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @ThinkingElixir@genserver.social Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @brainlid@genserver.social David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @dbern@genserver.social Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!