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**Elixir Mix**

Join our weekly discussion of the popular functional language built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. Each week, we discuss the world of Elxiir, Phoenix, OTP, and then BEAM.

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EMx 060: Property-Based Testing, Dialyzer, & Inaka with Brujo Benavides Jul 16, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Eric Oestrich
Michael Ries

Joined by Special Guest: Brujo Benavides Summary Brujo Benavides shares what he is working on right now and how his team feels about working in both Elixir and Erlang. He shares what his team has gotten out of using Elixir and what he thinks his team will get out of Elixir in the future. The panel discusses property-based testing and Fred Hebert’s book on property-based testing. Brujo shares use cases that would benefit from property-based testing and those that would benefit from unit testing. The panel considers dialyzer and shares their experiences using it in their code. Brujo explains how he chooses which tools to use for a project. Inaka is discussed; Brujo explains what they are all about and how to join. Upcoming conferences that Inaka is organizing is outlined and details on how to buy tickets are given. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

Eric Oestrich:

Michael Ries:

Foam board
https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/

Brujo Benavides:

Special Guest: Brujo Benavides.
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EMx 059: Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users with Matt Nowack Jul 09, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams
Michael Ries
Eric Oestrich

Joined by Special Guests: Matt Nowack Summary Matt Nowack, a developer at Discord, gives an intro to Discord and shares its origin story. The panel discusses the problems that Discord was having because of its 11 million concurrent users. Matt talks about when they knew there was a problem, how they used a runtime VM to find the problem, the tools they tried to fix the problem and how they landed on NIFs to fix the problem. The panel discusses the risks of using NIFs and how using Rust helps negate that risk. Matt discusses the reference counter in the rustler package and answers questions about using dirty schedulers. Discord developers publish many blogs and publish many open source projects; Matt shares the Discord philosophy on open sourcing and contributing to the Elixir community. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

Josh Adams:

https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet

Michael Ries:

Eric Oestrich:

https://podcast.smartlogic.io/

Matt Nowack:

Special Guest: Matt Nowack.
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EMx 058: Mint library with Eric Meadows-Jönsson & Andrea Leopardi Jul 02, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams
Michael Ries

Joined by Special Guests: Eric Meadows-Jönsson & Andrea Leopardi Summary Eric Meadows-Jönsson and Andrea Leopardi, members of the Elixir core team discuss the upcoming Mint library. They tell the panel their experience working on the core team and on the Mint library. They explain what Mint is and why people should know about it. Mint doesn’t use processes; Eric and Andrea explain why and what that means for the library. The panel discusses the benefits of using Mint and the use cases it can be applied to. Eric and Andrea give an update on how Mint is coming and explains why mint is not part of Elixir core. The panel considers building an HTTP library; Eric and Andrea share their experience. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4 - They added Chapter 14, “What’s Next?” In it we address LiveViewPubSub 2.0, adding “telemetry” information to Phoenix and other coming additions.

Josh Adams:

Michael Ries:

Andrea Leopardi:

Eric Meadows-Jönsson:

Special Guests: Andrea Leopardi and Eric Meadows-Jönsson.
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EMx 057: The Elixir Community with Adolfo Neto Jun 25, 2019

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Josh Adams
Michael Ries
Eric Oestrich

Joined by Special Guest: Adolfo Neto Summary Adolfo Neto shares the background behind his Elixir Brazil 2019 talk. The panel discusses other talks of Elixir Brazil 2019, the organizing of the conference, and the diversity initiative. Adolfo shares his experience in the U.S., attending meetups for other programming languages, comparing them to Elixir. The panel considers the Elixir code formatter and gives protips for using it. The best way to teach Elixir and functional programming is considered; the panel shares experiences and resources for learning functional programming. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

Wintergatan - Marble Machine

Josh Adams:

https://blog.ploeh.dk/2017/10/04/from-design-patterns-to-category-theory/

Michael Ries:

Using Rust to Scale Elixir for 11 Million Concurrent Users

Eric Oestrich:

Meetup Organizers

Adolfo Neto:

Special Guest: Adolfo Neto.
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EMx 056: Sobelow and Security with Griffin Byatt Jun 18, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: Griffin Byatt Summary Griffin Byatt shares his background and what he is doing now as a security consultant for NCC Group. The panel discusses his security library, Sobelow, and their experiences using it. Griffin explains how it works, how it came into being and the goal of Sobelow. The panel wonders who contributes to Sobelow and Griffin invites anyone to contribute. Vulnerabilities that are commonly seen across all frameworks and those specific to Elixir are discussed. Elixir’s security features are considered and Griffin shares his experiences working to improve the ecosystem. Griffin gives advice and recommends resources to developers. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

Josh Adams:

Griffin Byatt:

Special Guest: Griffin Byatt.
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EMx 055: Params Modules for Phoenix with Kuba Subczynski Jun 11, 2019

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Michael Ries

Joined by Special Guest: Kuba Subczynski Summary Kuba Subczynski starts by introducing params modules and the story behind the pattern. The panel discusses their heuristics for deciding when to bring on a dependency and when to build something yourself. Kuba defines an embedded schema and walks through the login controller use case for the params modules. The panel discusses the highlights from the article and the benefits of using params modules. Kuba warns that this pattern isn’t for everything and discusses with the panel when to use params modules. Kuba discusses his team and what it was like adopting Phoenix and Elixir. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

http://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/

Michael Ries:

https://ferd.ca/it-s-about-the-guarantees.html

Kuba Subcynski:

https://proseful.com/

Special Guest: Kuba Subczynski.
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EMx 054: Phoenix LiveView with Leandro Pereira Jun 04, 2019

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Michael Ries
Josh Adams
Mark Ericksen

Joined by Special Guest: Leandro Pereira Summary Leandro Pereira starts by sharing what the Elixir community is like in Brazil. He explains what applications Phoenix LiveView works well for and those that it does not. The panel discusses why people are so excited for LiveView. JavaScript in LiveView is discussed, including where it is, what it does and Javascript fatigue in the community. Leandro shares where people can find demo projects. The panel discusses drab and why it didn’t catch on. The benefits of LiveView are discussed including, pain problems it will solve, avoiding the duplication of code, and the magic that happens in web end development. The panel shares projects they are working on or thinking of. Links

Picks Michael Ries:

Josh Adams:

https://github.com/antoyo/relm
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Leandro Pereira:

https://pragprog.com/book/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-with-otp

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EMx 053: Building beautiful systems with Phoenix Contexts and DDD with Andrew Hao May 28, 2019

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Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: Andrew Hao Summary Andrew Hao joins the panel to discuss a recent talk he gave; he shares his background and his origin story with domain driven design. Andrew introduces an exercise that helped him called “Context Mapping”. The panel discusses how to context map and the benefits of doing this exercise with your team. Andrew explains what to model as methods and functions in context style mapping. Andrew explains aggregate roots. The panel discusses using these design tools in GraphQL and Phoenix Live View. Andrew warns against overusing these tools, leading to a discussion about how much is too much. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/04/whats-new-in-elixir-apr-19/

Josh Adams:

https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop

Andrew Hao:

Special Guest: Andrew Hao.
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EMx 052: Production Pitfall Pontification May 21, 2019

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Michael Ries
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Summary Michael Ries and Josh Adams share mistakes they have made and common pitfalls developers fall into during production. They start by discussing Heroku and Josh explains what pushed him away from Heroku. They discuss alternatives to Heroku and give tips on finding that “deployment sweet spot”. Moving on to configuration, they discuss the most common configuration error and their favorite configuration tools. Michael and Josh share the ways they use clustering. Using their own experiences they explain how they fell into these pitfalls warning new elixir developers, giving advice and sharing career hacks. Links

Picks Michael Ries:

Josh Adam:

https://noagendaplayer.com/

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EMx 051: Nerves and Farmbot with Connor Rigby May 14, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Michael Ries
Charles Max Wood

Joined by Special Guest: Connor Rigby Summary Connor Rigby, a core member of the Nerves team, answers the panel's questions about Farmbot and his experience working with Nerves. The panel discusses the great things about nerves. Connor shares his favorite tools for productions and testing practices. The panel discusses NervesKeys and NervesHub. Connor tells the panel what it was like working with NASA. Known for experimenting with Nerves, Connor talks about some of his projects. Links