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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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Latest Episodes:

EMx 050: Elixir Origin Story with José Valim May 07, 2019

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Mark Ericksen
Michael Ries
Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: José Valim Summary José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir. José shares his goals for Elixir for 2019 and discusses his role in different projects. The panel shares their love for the friendliness and openness of the Elixir community and asks José how it became that way. The history of the signature heart emojis is shared. José shares a little about his everyday life and the things he enjoys to do. The episode ends with an update on the Erlang Ecosystems Foundation. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen:

https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2019#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted

Josh Adams:

Charles Max Wood:

Michael Ries:

José Valim:

Special Guest: José Valim.
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EMx 049: Standard Library Treasures Apr 30, 2019

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Josh Adams
Michael Ries

Summary Josh Adams and Michael Ries discuss some of their favorites found in standard libraries and other tools. Michael starts by defining Ets, Dets, and Mnesia. They share the best ways to use these tools and when to use them. They also share uses cases and stories from times they have used these tools. Josh shares his work with UI’s and Michael discusses his work with nerves. They end by discussing the right time for new developers to learn how to use the tools discussed. Links

Picks Michael Ries

https://blog.usejournal.com/elixir-scenic-snake-game-b8616b1d7ee0

Josh Adams

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EMx 048: Introducing Newest Panelist: Michael Ries Apr 23, 2019

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Mark Ericksen

Joined by Special Guest: Michael Ries Summary Mark Ericksen interviews the newest member of the Elixir Mix panel, Michael Ries. Michael shares a bit of his background and how he got into Elixir. While sharing what he loves about Elixir, Michael gives advice to developers new to Elixir. Mark asks Michael about all his experimental projects. Michael discusses his play with TCP subscriptions, monitoring, nerves, and robotics. Michael talks about Hackaway, a cabin retreat for developers, how he runs it and how it all got started. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen

Michael Ries

https://hex.pm/packages/telemetry

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EMx 047: Property Based Testing with PropEr and Fred Hebert Apr 16, 2019

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Mark Ericksen

Joined by Special Guest: Fred Hebert Summary Fred Hebert shares his experience writing “Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!: A Beginner's Guide” and “Stuff Goes Bad: Erlang in Anger”. He talks about why he wrote these books and explains the whimsical illustrations in “Learn you some Erlang”. Mark Ericksen asks Fred about his latest book “Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: Find Bugs Before Your Users Do”. Fred gives an overview of property-based testing, explaining what it is, why it is important and sharing tips for getting started in property-based testing. Mark and Fred discuss PropEr and Fred’s inclusion of Elixir in this book. The ecosystems of Erlang and Elixir are explored and Fred shares what he would like to see from the Elixir community as an Erlang developer. They end the episode by discussing Fred’s time at Heroku and Fred’s current interests. Links

Picks Fred Hebert

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/metamorphic-testing/

Mark Ericksen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Brailsford

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EMx 046: Don't Repeat Your Domain Knowledge with Yiming Chen— Apr 09, 2019

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Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guest: Yiming Chen Summary Yiming Chen and the panel discusses his recent blog post about not repeating domain knowledge. Yiming Chen describes what he means by domain knowledge and how this differs from the well known “do not repeat yourself” rule. The panel discusses how this changes the code and this leads to a conversation about good testing practices. Live view is discussed and the panel asks Yiming Chen what he is looking forward to in elixir. Yiming Chen talks about what the elixir community is like in China and his experience switching from ruby to elixir. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen

Josh Adams

Yiming Chen

Special Guest: Yiming Chen.
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EMx 045: Where the Wild Things Are with Johnny Winn Apr 02, 2019

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Charles Max Wood
Mark Ericksen
Josh Adams

Joined by Special Guests: Johnny Winn and Michael Ries Summary Johnny Winn share his story with the panel starting with how elixir fountain got started. The panel compares elixir to other languages and share what they appreciate about it. After Johnny talks about what he is working on and his love for experimenting with elixir, the panel reveals some of the dumb, fun experiments that they have done in the past. Johnny shares how he burned himself out and the panel picks Johnny’s brain on signs that a someone might be burning out. This leads the panel into a deeper discussion of Johnny’s story and how he overcame that hard time in his life. Johnny shares a lot of tips and advice about how to stay positive and live a happy productive life. The panel ends with a throw back to the elixir fountain by doing a “five behind the code” with Johnny. Links

Picks Charles Max Wood

Josh Adams

Michael Ries

Johnny Winn

https://preloaded.com/work/science-museum-rugged-rovers/
Science Museum of London
https://www.cruiseamerica.com/

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EMx 044: Dangers of GenServers in Elixir with Mika Kalathil Mar 26, 2019

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Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams
Mark Ericksen

Joined by Special Guest: Mika Kalathil Summary Mika Kalathil introduces genservers and how they are misused. The panel plays with an analogy that explains how people think genservers work versus how genservers actually work. Mika Kalathil shares some ways to avoid the common mistakes with genservers. Tasks are introduced and explained by Mika Kalathil; the panel adds their input on the usefulness and the importance of tasks. Mika Kalathil shares his background and his transition to elixir from javascript. The panel asks Mika Kalathil questions about the libraries he uses, the types of projects that he works on and what improvements he would like to see in elixir. The episode ends with a discussion about the wonderful elixir community. Links

Picks Mark Ericksen

Josh Adams

https://twitter.com/TaylorPearsonMe

Charles Max Wood

Mika Kalathil

Special Guest: Mika Kalathil.
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EMx 043: Using GenServers and Tasks Together to Create Fault-Tolerant Apps with Jack Marchant Mar 19, 2019

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Joined by Special Guest: Jack Marchant Summary Mark Ericksen and Josh Adams ask Jack Marchant, a software engineer from Australia, about a few of his blog articles. Jack Marchant compares supervision trees to react component trees using his background in both the frontend and the backend. The panel exchanges views on what these observations might look like and how they can help elixir developers. Mark Ericksen turns the discussion to Jack Marchant's articles on genservers, and the lessons he learned in working with genservers. Jack Marchant explains that there are so many different uses for a genserver. The panel considers when it is useful to use a genserver and when it is better not to. Jack Marchant shares a way to better manage work using a task and genservers for asynchronous work. The panel reviews a few things that they appreciate about elixir and how productive it makes developers. Jack Marchant shares his experience working in an elixir based company, in hiring, training, and productivity. The panel discusses the experience of switching to elixir and asks Jack Marchant about his experience coming from PHP. Jack Marchant shares and discusses with the panel some highlights from the lonestar elixir conference and updates the panel on phoenix live view. Links

Picks Josh Adams

https://github.com/spencertipping/writing-self-modifying-perl

Mark Ericksen

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Jack Marchant

https://www.jackmarchant.com

Special Guest: Jack Marchant.
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EMx 042: Updates on ExVenture with Eric Oestrich Mar 12, 2019

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Josh Adams
Mark Ericksen

Guest: Eric Oestrich Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir Mix, Mark Ericksen and Josh Adams chat with guest, Eric Oestrich, a developer at SmartLogic and creator of ExVenture and Grapevine, two open source Elixir applications centered around text based games. Eric gives updates on ExVenture and Grapevine. Mark and Josh both have referenced ExVenture before, for using different ideas. They mention Prometheus and Grafana, two monitoring platforms that work well with Elixir applications. Eric also describes how Grapevine and ExVenture interact to help gamers get profiled with their achievements. Eric shares his experiences getting ExVenture set up with a continuous integration (CI) server. Panelists agree having side projects help developers try out new technology without deadline pressure. Eric does live development every Monday at 12:00 pm EST on smartlogictv. Eric and Mark both share their experiences with live coding. Josh mentions an article he liked on live coding: “Lessons from my first year of live coding on Twitch” by Suz Hinton. Eric talks about what he has been working on outside of ExVenture and Grapevine. They briefly compare ease of shelling out in Python, Elixir and Ruby. SmartLogic now has a podcast called “Smart Software with SmartLogic” and Mark was a guest on one of the episodes “Elixir in Production”. Links

Picks Josh Adams:

https://github.com/beerriot/goma

Mark Ericksen:

http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/02/announcing-broadway/

Eric Oestrich:

http://www.restfest.org/

Special Guest: Eric Oestrich.
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EMx 041: What Really Makes Erlang and Elixir Fault Tolerant and Scalable with Francesco Cesarini Mar 05, 2019

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Josh Adams
Mark Ericksen
Charles Max Wood

Guest: Francesco Cesarini Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir, Charles Wood, Josh Adams and Mark Ericksen chat with guest, Francesco Cesarini, Founder and Technical Director at Erlang Solutions about how to build reliable and scalable systems within the Elixir and Erlang world. Erlang Solutions provides consultancy to customers who are not familiar with Elixir and offers training when necessary. With their WOMBATOAM tool that can handle very large-scale systems like WhatsApp with its fault tolerant capability. Francesco talks about how he likes Elixir which is an up and coming language that focuses on UI/UX usability and compares Erlang and Elixir languages. Francesco mentions he is impressed with the emphasis Elixir community places on user-friendliness. The guest discusses pros and cons of handling shared memory and concurrency. Supervisors and OTP help handle errors by creating escalation strategies. Going beyond the software, Francesco then shares some of his favorite real life experiences of power outages and switch failures he faced while building fault tolerant systems. Links

Picks Josh Adams:

Mark Ericksen: