EMx 005: Asynchronicity in Elixir - Best Effort vs. Guaranteed Execution with Sam Davies

Panel: Charles Max WoodMark EriksonJosh AdamsEric 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 introProGolfMe StartupContributor to Rails and Elixir coreWorked in Ruby before ElixirLoved the Ruby communityWhy Elixir?Asynchronous programmingUnderstanding the BEAMErlangIdea of supervisorsWhat you do when a job failsIs the company going to lose money if we implement this?Exq libraryResque and SidekiqIssues with ExqCodefundRihanna Rihanna inspired by QueDelayed JobAnd much, much more! Links: ElixirNestedProGolfMeRailsRubyWhy Elixir?ErlangExqResqueSidekiqCodefundRihanna QueDelayed JobSamuelDavies.netSam’s GitHub@samphilipd Picks: Charles MattermostDocumenting processes for the podcastsSpend time with the people you care aboutJavaScript Jabber, Adventures in Angular, React Round Up, and Views on Vue Mark gproc Eric CodePilotWorking from home Josh Talk: Efficient data loading in Elixir using the deferrable patternEvent Sourcing made Simple by Philippe Creux Sam Node.js and Elixir presentationTalk: Elixir UmbrellaSpecial Guest: Sam Davies.

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