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EMx 010: Docker with Julian Fahrer Jul 17, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Eric Berry
Mark Erikson

Special Guests: Julian Fahrer In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Julian Fahrer about Docker. Docker is a container platform, which you can imagine as a set of tools, services, and practices that help you to develop, ship, and run your applications using software container technology. They talk about the applicability for developers for using Docker, the two different ways people use Docker, and how he usually uses Docker. They also touch on the main idea behind containers, the basics of Docker, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

What is Docker?
Containers are very lightweight
Containers VS virtual machines
How are people using Docker with Erlang and/or Elixir?
What’s the applicability for using Docker?
Ability to set up complex systems
Docker works out of the box with Windows, Mac, and Linux
2 different ways people use Docker
How do you usually use Docker?
Working with Discourse
Discourse uses Docker exclusively
CodeFund
Are you saying that the projects are headed more towards open source using Docker?
Using Docker to have a front and backend separated experience
Phoenix
Main idea behind containers
Running things in isolation
John Papa Demonstration
The value of deploying a release if you’re doing a Docker container
The basics of Docker
learndocker.online
And much, much more!

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Picks: Charles

Take time to code for fun
Get away
devchat.tv/elixir-docker

Eric

Cross Stitching

Mark

Dockerfile – his Gist

Julian

Special Guest: Julian Fahrer.
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EMx 009: Jarno Lindqvist - GDPR Jul 10, 2018

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Panel: Charles Max Wood Special Guests: Jarno Lindqvist In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Jarno Lindqvist about GDPR. Jarno is works for SAS institutes in the Finland office working mostly on data management, technical architecture, and GDPR regulation. They talk about what GDPR is, what developers need to understand about it, and the type of data that must comply with GDPR regulations. They also touch on data security and protection, the right to be forgotten, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Jarno intro
Developers are concerned about GDPR
Developers don’t have to completely understand it
Data governance and data management
Are there things that as software developers we need to understand?
GDPR basic education
Everyone behaving under the same laws
What kind of data are we talking about with GDPR?
Personal data definition
Broad definition of what kind of data falls under “personal data”
Regulations came into effect in May 2018 officially
What are we talking about with “protecting data”?
Data security
Taking precautions about how you keep your data
Keeping track of who you’ve displayed your data to
The purpose behind collecting your data
The right to be forgotten
Do US companies have to only comply with this when it comes to EU data?
What about EU citizens living abroad?
Does GDPR apply to both electronic and physical files?
What measures have you seen companies take to comply with GDPR?
GAP analyses
And much, much more!

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Jarno

Special Guest: Jarno Lindqvist.
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EMx 008: Nerves! with Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck Jun 18, 2018

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Panel:

Eric Berry
Mark Erikson
Josh Adams

Special Guests: Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck about Nerves! Frank is a software developer who, in his day job, focuses on C and C++ and now works for Smartrent using Nerves. Justin is currently working for Le Tote where he applies Nerves to the production there. They talk about what Nerves is, the two worlds you work within Nerves, the disadvantages to using Nerves, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Frank and Justin intro
Looking into ideas on how to use Nerves in their own homes
What is Nerves?
Collection of tools and frameworks that help you build embedded devices
Bridge from Elixir world to the physical world
Access to the rest of the Elixir ecosystem
FarmBot
Nerves in farming
Testament to the Nerves documentation
Understanding where Erlang came from
Can use a small size firmware
Raspberry pi
Two worlds to work in within Nerves
Goal is to keep you in the Elixir world
Where does Elixir fit in within the world of device programming?
Are people starting to be drawn to Nerves?
Nerves fits in with devices that are smarter
Targeting the embedded Linux space
Negatives to Nerves
Python
And much, much more!

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Walking
OverDrive app for ios

Mark

Dell XPS 13 Laptop

Josh

Should we adopt Dave’s way of building applications as a series of components? – Elixir Forum thread

Frank

Elixir Native UI
Cees De Groot

Justin

Gardening
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Special Guests: Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck.
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EMx 007: Deployments, Distillery, and Open Source with Paul Schoenfelde Jun 12, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Eric Berry
Mark Erikson
Josh Adams

Special Guests: Paul Schoenfelde In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Paul Schoenfelde about deployments, distillery, and open source. Paul is an architectural engineer at Dockyard and was previously a .net developer for about 10 years. Since coming to Elixir, he has been dedicating most of his open source time and free time to the language and projects associated with it. They talk about how he got to where he is today, Distillery, core release tooling, configuration, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Paul intro
Hot upgrades
Interested in the idea of upgrading a whole system
Timex
Elixir Deployment Tools Update- Blog post by Paul
Where are we at on the deployment story for Dockyard?
Works primarily on Distillery
Run-time configuration
Making Mix.Config work with releases
Trying to figure out the right way to deal with configurations
How do we get to the end state we want to be at?
Mix.Config support in Distillery
Elixir Mix
Pluggable providers
Libraries need to expose something
The need to sort through the options as a core team
Core tooling built into Elixir coming soon
Watchers
Configuration may change, but the application and library used have to be built in a particular way
Application callback module
Config Change
And much, much more!

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Eric

Fishing
Mario Odyssey on Nintendo Switch

Mark

Spending time away from the computer

Josh

Turkeys
elchemy

Paul

Vapor
Raft
Getting away from the keyboard
Woodworking
ElixirConf EU
Code Beam STO

Special Guest: Paul Schoenfelde.
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EMx 006: Elixir and Property-based testing with Vitaly Tatarintsev Jun 05, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Mark Erikson
Josh Adams

Special Guests: Vitaly Tatarintsev In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Vitaly Tatarintsev about Elixir and property-based testing. Vitaly is a back-end developer and who is currently still working predominantly with Ruby while he continues learns Elixir. He is fairly new to Elixir and likes to write articles about learning Elixir on his blog What did I Learn. They talk about what property-based testing is, where a person can get started with learning property-based testing, TDD with property-based testing, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Vitaly intro
Blog - What did I Learn
What is property-based testing?
Run data to find etch cases that don’t work
Are there tools for property-based testing?
Not a lot of tools for this in Elixir
Stream data library
Quick Check
Used in addition to unit tests
Where do you get started with property-based testing?
Start with stream data library
PropErTesting.com
Property-based Testing is a Mindset - ElixirConf EU Talk
How does property-based testing fit into the work flow?
TDD with property-based testing
Trying to implement Java applications
Where has property-based testing helped you?
John Hughes YouTube Video
Allows you to catch errors that you couldn’t predict to occur
Helps you find cases you don’t think of
What do you do when your property-based testing finds an error?
And much, much more!

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Crucial Accountability by Kerry Patterson

Mark

Elixir in Action by Saša Jurić

Josh

Vitaly

Find time to review your day and work toward your goals

Special Guest: Vitaly Tatarintsev.
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EMx 005: Asynchronicity in Elixir - Best Effort vs. Guaranteed Execution with Sam Davies May 29, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Mark Erikson
Josh Adams
Eric Berry

Special Guests: Sam Davies In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Sam Davies about asynchronicity in Elixir. Sam has been programming for about six years and got into Elixir about a year ago. Before working with Elixir, he was a Ruby programmer and he currently works for a company called Nested and introduced them to Elixir there. They talk about asynchronous programming, different Elixir libraries, and his creation Rihanna. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Sam intro
ProGolfMe Startup
Contributor to Rails and Elixir core
Worked in Ruby before Elixir
Loved the Ruby community
Why Elixir?
Asynchronous programming
Understanding the BEAM
Erlang
Idea of supervisors
What you do when a job fails
Is the company going to lose money if we implement this?
Exq library
Resque and Sidekiq
Issues with Exq
Codefund
Rihanna
Rihanna inspired by Que
Delayed Job
And much, much more!

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Picks: Charles

Mattermost
Documenting processes for the podcasts
Spend time with the people you care about
JavaScript Jabber, Adventures in Angular, React Round Up, and Views on Vue

Mark

gproc

Eric

CodePilot
Working from home

Josh

Sam

Special Guest: Sam Davies.
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EMx 004: Blockchain in Elixir with Kamil Lelonek May 22, 2018

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Panel:

Mark Erikson
Eric Berry
Justin Bean

Special Guests: Kamil Lelonek In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Kamil Lelonek about Blockchain in Elixir. Kamil is a software engineer from Poland who does full stack development with Elixir and JavaScript. He is also an educated dietician and is interested in topics such as biohacking, Bitcoin, and Blockchain. They talk about how he got into Elixir, how he decided to start implementing Blockchain in Elixir, and Bitcoin. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Kamil intro
Elixir and JavaScript
How did you come to Elixir?
Between Clojure and Elixir originally
Some experience with functional programming
Experience with Java, Ruby, and Scala
Wanted to use a functional language
Full-time Elixir developer now
How hard was it to transition to Elixir?
Syntax of Elixir is similar to Ruby
How long did it take you to go from an operational mindset to a functional mindset?
Coding in a non-idiomatic way
How did you get into Bitcoin and Blockchain with Elixir?
Start everything from scratch
Document journey through blog posts
Haven’t had any problems so far with implementation
Why Elixir is a good technology to implement Blockchain with
Started off simple
Leverage OTP in future
Leveraging wit pattern matching and binary matching
Blog posts to come
Mastering Bitcoin
Bitstring parsing
And much, much more!

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Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat

Eric

Six-Sided Fidget Spinner

Justin

Keyboard io

Kamil

Nonviolent Communication by Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg

Special Guest: Kamil Lelonek.
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EMx 003: Chris Keathley May 16, 2018

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Panel:

Eric Berry
Josh Adams
Justin Bean

Special Guests: Chris Keathley In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Chris Keathley. Chris has been in the Elixir community for a number of years and has been trying to contribute more to the community recently. He created libraries such as Wallaby and has been working on distributed systems tooling more recently. They talk about his various projects that he is working on, such as Raft, Toniq, and Maestro, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Chris intro
Elixir
Wallaby
What are you doing with distributed systems now?
Raft and Raft for Elixir
People like to attack problems with consistent solutions
Global process registries
What are AP Semantics?
What are CP Semantics?
Available systems
Eventual consistency
Clustering inside of VPN
Encapsulating state
Warehouse kiosks
The world fights against state machines
Alternatives based on rules or events
What projects are you working on now?
CAP Theorum
Toniq GitHub
ecto_hlclock
Event sourcing
Stems around message ordering
Maestro
The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
And much, much more!

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Justin

Josh

Elm Game Jam

Chris

Wild Wild Country
Hammocks
Start a garden

Special Guest: Chris Keathley.
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EMx 002: ElixirScript with Bryan Joseph May 08, 2018

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Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams
Justin Bean

Special Guests: Bryan Joseph In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel discusses ElixirScript with Bryan Joseph. Bryan works for Revelry Labs, has been a programmer for about 10 years, and has worked with Elixir since about 2013. They talk about what ElixirScript is, why you would want to use it, and why he came about wanting to create it. They also touch on different open source libraries that he has created and the importance of usability. In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Bryan intro
Elixir
What is ElixirScript?
Use it through a transpiler
What are the biggest challenges facing ElixirScript?
Usability
Where would you use ElixirScript?
Use it on web applications or on node
How easy is it to use this on top of a front-end library?
Hex packages
What’s the build process like?
There is a compile step
Mix compile
Include output folder in whatever app you are doing
Creates ES modules
What’s the most ambitious ElixirScript project going on right now?
To-do application
Was there a pain point at all?
How far did you get with processes?
Processes library
Do have plans to move this over to WebAssembly?
ElixirScript React Library
Vue
Webpack
And much, much more!

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Picks: Charles

Star Realms

Justin

Benchy
God of War

Josh

Capabilities 101
erights.org

Bryan

Special Guest: Bryan Joseph.
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EMx 001: Welcome to Elixir Mix May 01, 2018

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EMx 001: Welcome to Elixir Mix Panel:

Charles Max Wood
Josh Adams
Justin Bean
Mark Erikson

Special Guests: None In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel discusses Elixir and themselves. They talk about how the show got started, what each of the panelists are wanting to get out of the show, and how each of them got into Elixir themselves. They stress the fact that they want this show to make a difference in the Elixir community, give Elixir a bigger audience, and allow people to see what big and amazing things are happening with the language. In particular, we dive pretty deep on: