Elixir Wizards
174 episodes - English - Latest episode: 18 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsElixir Wizards is an interview-style podcast for anyone interested in functional programming and the Elixir Programming Language. Hosted by SmartLogic engineers and Elixirists Owen Bickford, Dan Ivovich, and Sundi Myint, this show features in-depth discussions with some of the brightest minds in the industry, discussing training and documentation in Phoenix LiveView, the evolution of programming languages, Erlang VM, and more.
In the current season, we're branching out from Elixir to compare notes with thought leaders and software engineers from programming languages like JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Go, Scala, Java, and more. Each episode will take a deep dive into a topic from Machine Learning and AI, to ECS and game development, to education and community.
Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smartlogic.io/phoenix-and-elixir?utm_source=podcast)
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Episodes
Devon Estes on how Architecture Is a Myth and One-file Design
October 01, 2020 10:00 - 48 minutes - 67.2 MBThere is no difference between architecture and design. It's all engineering and creating a distinction between the two is a way for someone to get paid more and have a different title. That hot take comes from Devon Estes, today’s guest, who provides a novel way of seeing design and architecture. We open the episode by diving straight into the topic of design, with Devon exploring how good design might be less important than developing the right toolset. We then talk about how language serve...
Lizzie Paquette on Compiling, Microliths, and Macros
September 24, 2020 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBImagine being hired into a rocketship startup using Elixir as its primary language. And all this, straight out of college. Today, we speak with systems software engineer, Lizzie Paquette who works at Brex, the aforementioned rocketship. We start our conversation by talking about how Lizzie got into coding relatively late in her life, partly due to an ill-fated run-in with Java. She shares details about her role at Brex and how the company has evolved. With a love of compilers, Lizzie dives in...
Eric Steen on Neuroevolution in AI
September 17, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 68 MBBuilding a sophisticated AI that can evolve to fit our vast and diverse needs is a Herculean challenge. Today we speak with senior engineer Eric Steen about Automata, his experimental Elixir project that uses neuroevolution and cutting edge theory to create a multi-agent behavior tree — or really good AI in the common tongue. But before we tap into that rich topic, we talk with Eric about tech burnout, his background, and why Elixir is an excellent language for writing modern software. He the...
Johnny Winn on Kitchen Secrets and Beautiful Coding
September 10, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes - 70 MBNo one cares about clever code. Instead, people want code that works. Code that they can read six months down the line. Today we speak with Johnny Winn, who avoids writing clever code by following a clear vision — “Make it work, then make it beautiful, then if you really, really have to, make it fast.” A Renaissance man, Johnny’s career ranged from cheffing to design before he settled into software engineering. Reflecting his many interests, we spend the first section of the podcast chatting...
Miki Rezentes on how it's APIs All the Way Down
September 01, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 58.9 MBAccording to an ancient myth, the world rests on the back of a turtle. And what does that turtle stand on? Another turtle. It turns out that it’s turtles all the way down. Miki Rezentes, today’s guest, believes that all software rests on the back of APIs. Similar to the myth, it’s APIs all the way down. We open our conversation by discussing how homeschooling her children did more to prepare Miki for a software career than anything else she’s encountered. Miki shares highlights from her talk,...
ElixirConf 2020 Preview
August 27, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 53.3 MBWith ElixirConf 2020 just around the corner, today’s episode is a sneak peek where we talk with six of this year’s speakers. Each speaker gives listeners an elevator pitch of their talk while throwing in extra details about who their talk is aimed at, what they learned through the process, and which talks they’re excited about attending. Our first guest is Quinn Wilton, a developer at Tinfoil Security, whose talk is titled ‘Type-Safe LiveView with Gleam’. Quinn explains how she’s created a s...
Mark Windholtz on Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
August 20, 2020 10:00 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBDomain-driven design and extreme programming can help bridge the gap between development and business, and today we invite Mark Windholtz from Agile DNA to talk about how! Mark starts out by telling us about his early work in extreme programming before agile was a term and how he switched from Rails to Elixir after realizing its power for implementing domain-driven design. We take a deep dive with him into what these concepts mean, hearing him weigh in on how DDD can help architecture accommo...
Elixir Wizards Dojo: Nerves Part 2 with Connor Rigby and Todd Resudek
August 13, 2020 10:00 - 42 minutes - 59.1 MBWelcome to the second part of our special Elixir Wizards Dojo. A mashup made in partnership with ElixirConf Japan. In today’s episode, we talk to Nerves core team members Todd Resudek and Connor Rigby about all things Nerves. But first, Todd leads us into a delightful digression about his enjoyment of heavy metal music. From metal back to Nerves, Todd chats about how he uses Nerves to monitor his internet connection and to automatically restart his router when certain conditions are met. Afte...
Elixir Wizards Dojo: Nerves Part 1 with Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck
August 11, 2020 10:00 - 54 minutes - 75 MBWelcome to the first part of our extra special Elixir Wizards Dojo. A mashup made in partnership with ElixirConf Japan, in today’s episode, we pose questions asked by the Japanese Nerves community to Nerves core team members, Frank Hunleth and Justin Schneck. After introducing our guests, we talk about which companies make use of Nerve and explore its use cases by looking at FarmBot, an open source robotic farming tool. Justin and Frank take turns explaining the differences between soft and h...
Greg Mefford on Nerves, Poncho vs Umbrella Apps, and Pre-Code Planning
August 06, 2020 10:00 - 41 minutes - 57.8 MBIn today’s episode, we chat about system architecture, Ruby, Elixir, and everything in between with Greg Mefford, the senior back-end engineer for the Bleacher Report. We open the conversation by asking Greg about his start in coding, leading to a story about how Greg was that bored kid pressuring a math teacher to teach him QBasic. He shares how he fell in love with Ruby before discovering Elixir and Nerves. Having faced some challenges when learning Nerves, Greg talks about how he began doc...
Johanna Larsson on Hex Diff, Domain Driven Design, Umbrella apps, and more
July 27, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBJohanna Larsson is a community-minded software engineer whose project, Hex Diff, generates highlighted git diffs, right in your browser. In this episode, we talk to Johanna about how Hex Diff can benefit Elixir users, the differences between code architecture and code design, and the debatably under-appreciated role of Elixir umbrella apps. We start the conversation by chatting with Johanna about her recent move to London and her work for Duffel; a startup helping travel agencies book trips. ...
Lau Taarnskov on the Trouble with Time Zones
July 23, 2020 10:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBHandling date and time is a challenge in any language, but Lau Taarnskov is determined to solve that problem in Elixir. Lau is today’s guest on Elixir Wizards, and this episode is all about his contributions to Elixir. Lau has been involved with web development and e-commerce for decades. He started contributing to Elixir open source in 2014 and created the Calendar and tzdata libraries. Calendar is a datetime library for Elixir, that provides explicit types for datetimes, dates, and times, a...
Council of Wizards Part 2 with Chris Bell, Desmond Bowe, Emily Maxie, Dan Lindeman, and Alan Voss
July 16, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes - 76.3 MBFor part 2 of our Council of Wizards panel discussion, we are joined by Chris Bell, Desmond Bowe, Emily Maxie, Dan Lindeman, and Alan Voss! Chris and Desmond run the ElixirTalk Podcast and we get in-depth on the intersection of the language and talking about it. They share the lessons they have learned in the podcasting space, making some pit stops to chat about aliens, Elixir beef, and marble flooring! We discuss the community during the pandemic and what the Elixir world might look like for...
Council of Wizards Part 1 with Andrea Leopardi and René Föhring
July 14, 2020 10:00 - 39 minutes - 54.8 MBThe Elixir community continues to flourish and evolve in these uncertain times and in honor of this we have put together a live show with a number of special guests! In part one today, we are joined by Andrea Leopardi and René Föhring, who we are so happy to welcome back. We get the lowdown from each of them in turn, discussing personal preferences, tips and tricks, and recommendations for Elixir and beyond. Andrea gets into some of his pet peeves and comments on the trend of slow interfaces....
Chris McCord with a Deep Dive on Phoenix
July 09, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBAlthough it’s taken him four seasons to make an appearance, we are so glad to finally welcome Chris McCord, creator of the Phoenix framework, onto the show. While this season’s focus is on system and application architecture, today’s discussion deviates to focus on Phoenix. We get started by hearing more about Chris’s programming journey, all the way from TI-Basic to where he is now. After this, we dive into LiveView, the project Chris is currently focusing most of his energy on. We get into ...
Amos King on MUDs, Architecture, Domain-driven design, and Military Bases
July 02, 2020 10:00 - 55 minutes - 76.6 MBToday’s guest is Amos King, Principal CEO at Binary Noggin, and host on the Elixir Outlaws and This Agile Life podcasts. This episode is centered around a casual conversation about everything from programming, the military, sarcasm, and puns to systems and application architecture, domain-driven design, and bitmasks. Amos shares with us how he got into programming, after wanting to be a doctor or an engineer first, and tells us how he met Famous Amos. We talk about spectrum analyzers, Elixir ...
Sundi Myint on The Visual Side of Elixir, the History of Emojis, and Test- and Domain-Driven Architecture
June 25, 2020 10:00 - 45 minutes - 63.7 MBWelcome to another episode of Elixir Wizards as we continue our journey into system and application architecture! Our featured guest today is Sundi Myint and she is here to share her journey with Elixir and her non-traditional path to programming. We hear about Sundi's interest in gaming, her role at Cava and a bit of the inspiration behind her amazing Instagram account! We discuss her first internship and how she found herself in the role quite suddenly before diving into the motivation behi...
Dave Thomas on Learning How Things Work
June 18, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBDave Thomas is recognized internationally as an expert who develops high-quality software–accurate and highly flexible systems. He helped write the now-famous Agile Manifesto, and regularly gives inspiring and controversial speeches on new ways of producing software. He is the author of six books, including the best selling The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer's Guide. In this episode, we discuss everything from learning computer sci...
Ben Marx on the Launch and Architecture of SubSpace
June 11, 2020 10:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBJoining us on the show for this episode is Ben Marx, author of Adopting Elixir and Principal Control Plane Engineer at the recently launched SubSpace! We continue our Season 4 journey into system and application architecture with Ben and he unpacks what he can about the somewhat still under wraps work at the new company. Ben is all about plain-spoken and easy to understand conversations on these topics, preferring to avoid highfalutin and confusing terms with multiple interpretations. He real...
Pattern Matching - Johanna Larsson
June 09, 2020 10:00 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBA special episode of Elixir Wizards highlighting Pattern Matching with Todd - a short format interview where our friend, Todd Resudek, asks different guests the same five questions. This week Todd spoke with Johanna Larsson. Johanna is active on the Elixir scene and is currently working as a Software Engineer at Duffel. Key Points From This Episode: * Living in Malmo, Sweden. * Johanna's love of languages. * The complexities of written Japanese. * How Johanna uses music to set the soundtrac...
Pattern Matching With Todd - Michael Crumm
May 28, 2020 10:00 - 12 minutes - 18.1 MBA special episode of Elixir Wizards highlighting Pattern Matching with Todd - a short format interview where our friend, Todd Resudek, asks different guests the same five questions. This week Todd spoke with Michael Crumm. Michael is known for his work on the highly anticipated Phoenix LiveDashboard and is a Senior Software Engineer at Dockyard. Key Points From This Episode: * Overview of Michael's work on the Phoenix LiveDashboard and how Todd is using it. * Galesburg, Illinois' claim to fa...
Steve Bussey on Real-Time Applications
May 28, 2020 10:00 - 49 minutes - 68.5 MBReal-time applications come with real challenges—persistent connections, multi-server deployment, and strict performance requirements are just a few. Our guest today is Steve Bussey, a software architect at SalesLoft and author of the new book, Real-Time Phoenix: Build Highly Scalable Systems with Channels. In this episode, Steve shares with us what he has written on real-time Elixir applications and how he has led development in the field. We discuss how Steve found Elixir, what system and a...
Mohd Maqbool Alam on System and Application Architecture
May 21, 2020 10:00 - 43 minutes - 60.1 MBToday’s guest is Mohd Maqbool Alam, a software developer and Elixir fan from Delhi. He enjoys learning about programming language theory, distributed systems, Cloud Native technologies, and open source. As he is working towards building an Elixir community in Delhi, we caught up with him to find out how he came to be part of the Elixir world, and what drew him to programming in the first place. We also discuss Maqbool’s favorite Elixir resources and how Elixir has changed the way he thinks ab...
Season Four Launchisode
May 14, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 95.9 MBAs our first trilogy comes to a close, and we embark on the next one, we’re doing what all great trilogies do: Upending everything that made the initial one great and starting afresh. We have taken on board some excellent listener feedback to keep this the highest quality Elixir related podcast. So, for this launchisode, rather than doing a trailer, we are diving in headfirst with a full episode on system and application architecture, this season’s theme, with Justus Eapen, Dan Ivovich, and E...
Betweenisode Part 2! Featuring Amos King, Chris Keathley, Anna Neyzberg, Paul Schoenfelder, Sophie DeBenedetto, Meryl Dakin, and Dave Thomas
April 23, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 73.9 MBWelcome back to part two of our betweenisode! Everybody is working remotely now including ourselves, so today we continue the catch ups we were having with a number of longstanding buddies and chat about life after social distancing! The show is a back-to-back of four different conversations, the first being with Amos King, Chris Keathley, and Anna Neyzberg from Elixir Outlaws. After that we talk to Paul Schoenfelder, before getting on the line with Sophie DeBenedetto and Meryl Dakin. Last bu...
Betweenisode Part 1: Saša Jurić, Bruce and Maggie Tate, James Edward Gray II, Jim and Chris Freeze, and Frank Hunleth
April 21, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBThe world has changed so much since the end of season 3, that we thought we’d put together a special Betweenisode to tide you over until Season 4 launches. In this episode, we talk to several friends and respected members of the Elixir community, about how they’re coping and tips they have for retaining some normalcy in your life if you’re suddenly having to work from home. Our first guest, Saša Jurić, of Very Big Things, and author of the unrivaled Elixir in Action, has had the privilege of ...
Season Three Wrap and Remote Work Tips
April 02, 2020 10:00 - 50 minutes - 70.5 MBIn this episode, we take a look into the current contexts and home lives many of us find ourselves in today, offering top tips for working remotely from home during these challenging times. The lockdowns have caused many of us to reflect. To reflect on our lives, our work, what we’re grateful for, and in this case, our epic last season of Elixir Wizards! Here, we take you through the highlights, the lowlights, our biggest lessons, our juiciest debates, and what you can expect for Season 4 – i...
Sophie and Meryl Takeover: Sean Callan and Steven Nunez on Elixir Education
March 26, 2020 10:00 - 53 minutes - 74.9 MBWelcome to another extra special episode of Elixir Wizards! We have guest hosts today, Meryl Dakin of Frame.io and Sophie DeBenedetto of Github, and they welcome Steven Nunez, Staff Engineer at the Flatiron School, and Sean Callan, creator of Elixir School, to the show. Where some would see the fact that Elixir doesn’t have a ton of readily available answers out there as a restriction to mastering the language, our guests argue that this is the best educational environment. Writing about chal...
Saša Jurić on Training
March 19, 2020 10:00 - 51 minutes - 70.8 MBSaša Jurić is a household name in the Elixir and Erlang space and we are so glad to finally welcome him on to the show today! Author of Elixir in Action, Saša is here to discuss training and his thoughts on getting a team up to speed with regards to testing and beyond. We hear from our guest about his discovery of Elixir, his uncharacteristic early adoption of the language, and why he chose it. From there, Saša talks a bit about his book, the opportunity that arose for him to write it after ...
Bonus Episode: Outlaws and Wizards
March 13, 2020 16:00 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBElixir Outlaws invited us to join them for a special crossover episode, recorded live at Lonestar Elixir 2020. Join us for a conversation around fun and learning in development, highlights from day one of the conference, remembering Joe Armstrong, and more. Guests / Hosts Justus Eapen @justuseapen (https://twitter.com/justuseapen) Anna Neyzberg @ANeyzb (https://twitter.com/ANeyzb) Amos King @adkron (https://twitter.com/Adkron) Bruce Tate @redrapids (https://twitter.com/redrapids) Susumu Yamaz...
Devon Estes from Sketch on Benchee, Performance and Training
March 12, 2020 10:00 - 48 minutes - 67.5 MBOur guest today, Devon Estes, approached us about the possible opportunity for Elixir to optimize and build out the pandas data analysis and manipulation tool, sharing why he thinks it would be a valuable addition to the Elixir open source ecosystem. But Devon joins us to contribute to our ongoing discussion about performance and training in the Elixir world, sharing about his current work on the beta for Sketch Cloud, his previous Erlang consultancy role at one of the largest banks in Europe...
Second Annual Lonestar Lunchisode
March 05, 2020 11:00 - 53 minutes - 74.1 MBWelcome back to the show for this special edition Lunchisode, coming to you live from the Lonestar Elixir 2020 Conference! We have a revolving door of speakers at this informal roundtable and a few friends and associates stop by to introduce themselves, share their thoughts on the conference so far and subjects that they care about. We follow up on some of the ideas raised in the Lonestar preview episode as well as hear about new and interesting ways that Elixir is being used at a variety of ...
Bonus Toddcast & Lonestar Preview
February 27, 2020 12:30 - 1 hour - 98.2 MBThis week we're delighted to share a special format bonus episode! We are joined by guest co-host Todd Resudek as well as a number of guests who each share a little bit about what they're working on and in many cases their upcoming presentations at Lonestar Elixir. Special episode guests: * Angel Jose, Senior Platform Engineer at Cars.com * Dave Lucia, VP of Engineering at SimpleBet * Greg Mefford, Senior Back-End Engineer at Bleacher Report * Melvin Cedeno, Elixir Developer at SplitGyms *...
Alex Garibay and Mike Binns from DockYard on Hiring and Training
February 20, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MBToday on the show, we’re joined by Mike Binns and Alex Garibay of DockYard. In this episode, Mike and Alex share their journeys of how they came to work at DockYard and give us a view into DockYard’s hiring and training processes, systems, and philosophies. Here they share what they enjoy most about working at DockYard and their emphasis on being supported in your continual growth as an employee and human being. Key Points from This Episode: Find out how Mike and Alex both got their jobs at D...
Sean Lewis from Divvy on Performance, Hiring and Training
February 13, 2020 11:00 - 34 minutes - 48.1 MBToday on Elixir Wizards we are delighted to be joined by Sean Lewis, a senior backend architect at Divvy. One of the many impressive facts about Sean is that he is entirely self-taught, from dabbling in Python and coding to eventually writing a bunch of Ruby tests and working his way up in the product development sphere. In his free time, he likes to play around with electronics and work on other tech-related projects such as developing custom smart home devices. In this episode, Sean discuss...
Paul Schoenfelder and Hans Elias Josephsen on Lumen and Performance
February 06, 2020 11:00 - 51 minutes - 72.2 MBIn line with our current working-with-Elixir theme, today we’re talking about performance with Paul Schoenfelder and Hans Elias Josephsen from DockYard. The two have been working on Lumen, and in this episode, they discuss how this project is incorporated with WebAssembly, a binary instruction format that ultimately allows Elixir to be run in the browser and preserve the semantics of the language. Paul and Hans talk about the specific aspects of Lumen they are working on; the data flow and pr...
Sophie DeBenedetto and Meryl Dakin on Training and Building Elixir Projects Under Constraints
January 30, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBToday on the show we are joined by Sophie DeBenedetto from GitHub and Meryl Dakin from Frame.io to talk about the processes involved in training others and building Elixir projects. They share about studying and working together at the Flatiron School and what they do now in their respective new roles at Github and Frame.io. During their time at Flatiron, they worked on various projects, often collaborating with engineering teams from other companies and having to train these team members in ...
Brooklyn Zelenka on Functional Programming
January 23, 2020 11:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBIn today’s episode we have one of our favorite recurring guests, Brooklyn Zelenka, joining us once again! Brooklyn has been on the show in both the first and second seasons to speak about Elixir and functional programming. In those conversations, it came up that this topic is far from exhausted, and since Season 3's theme is working with Elixir, we thought it would be great to have Brooklyn on for a third time. Today, Brooklyn does not speak to Elixir specifically though, but on functional pr...
Bruce and Maggie Tate from Groxio on Training
January 16, 2020 11:00 - 38 minutes - 53.4 MBGroxio is a great platform that allows programmers to learn new languages easily and broaden their horizons. Our guests today are the team behind Groxio, Bruce and Maggie Tate! In our discussion, we cover the basics and the not so basics of what they do, from how they got into the Elixir world and founded Groxio to the conferences they run and the books they have published. We also talk about the benefits of learning multiple languages and Bruce makes a strong argument for the influence that ...
Dan Ivovich from SmartLogic on Hiring and Training
January 09, 2020 11:00 - 22 minutes - 32.3 MBOn today's show, we are joined by Dan Ivovich from our team here at SmartLogic! Dan is the Director of Development Operations and has already been a guest and cohost a few times on the show. Today we are talking about hiring and training and his experience with these tasks at the company and especially concerning Elixir. We discuss the challenges Dan has faced in recruiting and the ways in which SmartLogic has lined up resumes and possible candidates through events and meetups. Dan explains s...
Eric Meadows Jönsson on Hex and Working with Elixir
January 02, 2020 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.7 MBWe are happy to be joined in this episode by Eric Meadows Jönsson, creator of the hexpm package manager, and an amazing resource who works tirelessly to build the Elixir community. Eric presently works at Brex and was part of the core team at Forza previously. In keeping with our current topic of all things working with Elixir, Eric takes a deep dive into the work he is doing to optimize various interfaces at Brex. He gives us the rundown on the static compile-time checking project he is work...
Chris Keathley on Performance and Functional Programming
December 19, 2019 11:00 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBOur guest on the show today is blogger, software cowboy, and podcast host Chris Keathley. Chris is a senior engineer at Bleacher Report, co-host of Elixir Outlaws, and writer of an assemblage of open-source software. He joins us today to speak about his new projects, his journey with functional programming, and what it is like to run Bleacher Report’s infrastructure on Elixir. Chris gives us the lowdown on Norm, a data validating interface he recently completed, weighing in on how it is diffe...
Justin Schneck & Frank Hunleth on Nerves and Performance – Working with Elixir
December 12, 2019 11:00 - 38 minutes - 54.2 MBOn today’s show, we welcome Justin Schneck and Frank Hunleth, luminaries from the Nerves team! We take a dive into the world of Nerves with them, covering themes of performance, problem-solving, transitioning to hardware, and breakthroughs in the field. We begin with a conversation on how Elixir handles performance issues on the range of devices they support and Frank gets into how the team solved an early boot time discrepancy between a PC and a Raspberry Pi board. Other big themes for today...
Brad Traylor of Podium on Training & Hiring – Working with Elixir
December 05, 2019 11:00 - 27 minutes - 38.2 MBOur theme this season is working with Elixir, and joining in the conversation today is Brad Traylor from Podium. Brad shares his expertise in hiring and training for Podium, a position he is passionate about since it gives him the opportunity to work on the people and tech side of things. We begin by hearing a bit of Brad’s background, when and how he was first introduced to Elixir and the standout qualities that attracted him to Podium. He discusses the hiring process, including what he look...
José Valim, Creator of Elixir
November 26, 2019 11:00 - 43 minutes - 60.8 MBToday on Elixir Wizards we are joined by none other than José Valim, the inventor of Elixir! Coming from the Ruby on Rails world, José found his way to functional programming and we hear all about the evolution of his philosophy and thought process around the time of the creation of the language. He gives us some great insight into why functional programming is so appealing to him and the problems he wanted to solve by creating Elixir. We chat about other languages and his use of Erlang, Elix...
Dr Jim Freeze on Hiring, Training, and Functional Programming – Working with Elixir
November 21, 2019 11:00 - 25 minutes - 35.7 MBWelcome to Elixir Wizards, today we are joined by Dr. Jim Freeze to talk about his passion for and history in Elixir and functional programming. Dr. Freeze is one of the organizers of one of our favorite things in the world, Elixir Conf! He shares his story of coming to functional programming and his early days with Elixir, what he sees as the most important aspects of the conference before diving into what is on offer for those that attend. We talk about how employers can get Elixir newcomer...
Season 3 Trailer
November 19, 2019 11:00 - 1 minute - 2.3 MBWelcome back to Season 3! Our theme this time around is Working with Elixir. Listen for more on our theme, upcoming guests, and our new name.
Season Two Wrap
October 03, 2019 10:00 - 11 minutes - 17 MBWelcome to the last episode of Season 2 of the podcast! We are taking this opportunity to recap what we covered in the season and talk about what we liked and what we didn't like so much. We do not have a guest for today's show so it is just Eric and Justus doing some reflection. We do want to take this opportunity to thank all of our guests that have appeared on this season and shared their expertise with us, we definitely feel we learned a lot during this time! In Season 3 we will be focuss...
Dave Lucia on Rustler – Elixir Internals
September 26, 2019 10:00 - 32 minutes - 30.5 MBOur guest today on the show is Dave Lucia, who is currently the Vice President of Engineering at SimpleBet. He is here as part of Elixir Internals series, to talk to us and all our listeners about Rustler and the contribution he made to the library! According to our guest, Rustler acts as a bridge between Rust and Elixir and allows users to employ the power of Rust within Elixir and a great example of this can be found in Dave's work at SimpleBet. He explains some of this application and the ...
Eric Oestrich on ExVenture – Elixir Internals
September 19, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 28 MBThis season on Smart Software Season 2, we are focused on the inner workings of Elixir and the inner workings of popular Elixir libraries, or Elixir internals. Today, I have the pleasure of interviewing my colleague, Eric Oestrich who's responsible for the wildly successful Elixir MUD framework ExVenture. ExVenture - https://exventure.org/ MUDs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD Ecto - https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto Eric's Going Multi-Node presentation at ElixirConf - https://www.youtub...