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
Sophie DeBenedetto on Excrypt and Railway
September 12, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.8 MBWelcome to another episode of the podcast everybody! As we continue our journey into Elixir internals in Season 2, we welcome Sophie DeBenedetto to tell us about the two libraries she and the Flatiron School created! We talk about Encrypt and Railway and a bunch of other great stuff from the world of Elixir and open source and Sophie shares so much about why she is particularly excited about things at the moment. She talks about the maturation of the Elixir community and her first and most im...
Sophie DeBenedetto on Excrypt and Railway – Elixir Internals
September 12, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 42.8 MBWelcome to another episode of the podcast everybody! As we continue our journey into Elixir internals in Season 2, we welcome Sophie DeBenedetto to tell us about the two libraries she and the Flatiron School created! We talk about Encrypt and Railway and a bunch of other great stuff from the world of Elixir and open source and Sophie shares so much about why she is particularly excited about things at the moment. She talks about the maturation of the Elixir community and her first and most im...
Shanti Chellaram on Pri-Queue and raft_erl – Elixir Internals
September 05, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 40.6 MBToday on the show we welcome Shanti Chellaram to talk about a couple of Erlang libraries she has created! We hear from her about Pri-Queue and rafterl, and her motivation behind making them and some of the things we wishes she did differently! Shanti shares some of her background, early coding experiences, affinity for open source and her current work situation. From there we look at Pri-Queue, the problem it addresses and what a priority queue is. A highlight of the show is Shanti giving the...
Shanti Chellaram on Pri-Queue and raft_erl
September 05, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 40.4 MBToday on the show we welcome Shanti Chellaram to talk about a couple of Erlang libraries she has created! We hear from her about Pri-Queue and rafterl, and her motivation behind making them and some of the things we wishes she did differently! Shanti shares some of her background, early coding experiences, affinity for open source and her current work situation. From there we look at Pri-Queue, the problem it addresses and what a priority queue is. A highlight of the show is Shanti giving the...
Michał Muskała on Ecto and jason – Elixir Internals
August 29, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 38.6 MBToday on the show we are joined by Michal Muskala, who is currently a freelance software engineer and he is here to talk to us about his work on the Ecto and jason libraries. With Ecto we continue our journey into Elixir and Michal explain how he became involved in the project and the work he did on it. He explains a little of its inner workings, issues and what excited him about it initially. We then turn to jason, a widely popular library that Michal created for parsing JSON. Michal unpacks...
Todd Resudek on Hex – Elixir Internals
August 22, 2019 10:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBToday on the show we get stuck into the inner workings of Hex 1.0 and are happy to be joined by returning guest, Todd Resudek. As you might already know, Todd is the Senior Software Engineer at Weedmaps, a regular speaker on the conference scene, and one of the three core team members at Hex. With the total downloads sitting at 641 million, the Hex community is growing rapidly and shows no signs of slowing down. In this episode, we discover what makes the Hex packages some of the most popular...
Chris Keathley on Wallaby and Raft – Elixir Internals
August 15, 2019 10:00 - 26 minutes - 25.1 MBIn this episode of the podcast we are joined by Chris Keathley to continue our exploration of Elixir internals as he tells us about two very popular libraries that he developed, Wallaby and Raft. We start off with some background and his initial experiences with Elixir and open source projects before diving into Wallaby and some of the biggest lessons that Chris learned during and after his work on the library. Chris does a great job of explaining concurrent tests and the Sandbox and some of...
René Föhring on Credo – Elixir Internals
August 08, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.9 MBWelcome back to the SmartLogic Podcast where we talk about the latest developments and best practices in the web and mobile software industry. In continuing with our theme of Elixir Internals, we’re having a conversation about the inner workings of one of the most popular Elixir libraries, Credo, and we are joined by the author René Föhring. René shares the story of how he was introduced to Elixir while doing his PhD and looking for a new programming language and then shares the philosophy ...
Meryl Dakin on Token Alchemist – Elixir Internals
August 01, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.9 MBToday on the show we continue our series on the inner workings of several different Elixir libraries and are happy to be joined by Meryl Dakin, Software Engineer at the Flatiron School and author of Token Alchemist. In this episode, we discover how Meryl got started with Elixir and what the process was like for her transitioning from Ruby to Elixir. We learn more about the internal functions of Token Alchemist within the school context and discuss the unique opportunities Meryl has discovered...
Paul Schoenfelder on Distillery – Elixir Internals
July 25, 2019 10:00 - 29 minutes - 27.9 MBWelcome back to show everyone and today in our exploration of Elixir libraries we are talking to Paul Schoenfelder! He is here to unpack Distillery, his own creation from the world of Elixir and tell us about how it works. We also discuss how Paul made the transition from bigger corporations into the startup world, his early experiences of different coding languages and the initial steps he took in writing Distillery. Paul is very honest about the unclear future of the library and he shares h...
Bryan Joseph on ElixirScript – Elixir Internals
July 18, 2019 10:00 - 23 minutes - 22.8 MBToday on the show we continue our series on the inner workings and various libraries of Elixir and are very happy to welcome Bryan Joseph of Revelry to talk about his very own ElixirScript. ElixirScript is essentially an Elixir to JavaScript compiler, allowing users to run Elixir online more easily. We ask Bryan what inspired this project and about some of the major challenges that have faced it. We also talk about the role of his company, Revelry in his career and work in open source. Bryan ...
Brooklyn Zelenka on Witchcraft - Elixir Internals
July 11, 2019 10:00 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MBHey everybody and welcome back to Season 2 of the podcast! This season we will be talking about Elixir internals, libraries and the inner workings of the language. In our first episode we are very happy to be joined by Brooklyn Zelenka to start off our journey on the subject with an exploration of her very own Witchcraft. In this episode we talk to Brooklyn about her history with Elixir, how she got started and what attracts her to it. Brooklyn explains the influence that open source philosop...
Season 2 Trailer
July 09, 2019 10:00 - 1 minute - 2.39 MBWe’re excited to announce our season two topic, Elixir Internals. In this season we talk with developers behind some of the most popular Elixir libraries, including Witchcraft, ElixirScript, Distillery, Ecto, and more!
Elixir in Production Recap
April 18, 2019 10:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MBWith this season over, we bring Dan Ivovich back to talk about what we learned. Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic 00:43 - Why are you using Elixir in production? 01:20 - Advantages / disadvantages of Elixir 02:38 - How do you deploy? 03:48 - Zero downtime deploys 05:40 - Clustering 06:56 - Elixir App performance 09:00 - Background task processing 10:36 - Common Libraries 14:40 - 3rd Party Services 16:16 - Do you have a story where Elixir saved the day in production...
Jeffrey Matthias from Community - Elixir in Production
April 11, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 40.8 MBWe talk with Jeffrey Matthias from Community about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Jeffrey Matthias - Community (https://www.community.com/) Find Jeffrey elsewhere online: http://github.com/idlehands https://twitter.com/idlehands 0:47 - Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production. 3:29 - Why are you using Elixir in production? 6:04 - What are some of the high level advantages / disadvantages of Elixir, from your perspective? 10:14 -...
Jay Ashe from Cava - Elixir in Production
April 04, 2019 10:00 - 17 minutes - 16.8 MBWe talk with Jay Ashe from Cava about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Jay Ashe - Cava (https://cava.com/) Find Jay elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/jgashe 0:40 - Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production. CAVA is a fast-casual mediterranean restaurant chain with 75 stores across the US. Elixir and phoenix power CAVA’s online ordering platform (order.cava.com and the CAVA app). We’ve got a REST (and websockets) api sitting beh...
Frank Hunleth - Elixir in Production
March 28, 2019 10:00 - 28 minutes - 27.1 MBWe talk with Frank Hunleth from the Nerves core team about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Frank Hunleth - Nerves (https://nerves-project.org/) Find Frank elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/fhunleth https://github.com/fhunleth 0:53 Frank intro 2:02 Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production. 4:25 Why are you using Elixir in production? 8:00 What are some of the high level advantages / disadvantages of Elixir, from yo...
Mark Ericksen - Elixir in Production
March 21, 2019 10:00 - 36 minutes - 34.2 MBWe talk with Mark Ericksen from Elixir Mix about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Mark Ericksen - Elixir Mix (https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/) Find Mark elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/brainlid https://brainlid.org/ 00:32 Intro 0:58 Mark intro Developing a long time. C#, then Rails. Webforms were terrible. Rails is “Wow, this is how web development should be… I moved across the country to work with this technology” The Rails Community is strong. Dave Thom...
Brooklyn Zelenka from SPADE Co. - Elixir in Production
March 14, 2019 10:00 - 27 minutes - 26.2 MBWe talk with Brooklyn Zelenka from SPADE Co. about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Brooklyn Zelenka - SPADE Co. (https://spade.builders/) Find Brooklyn elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/expede https://github.com/expede 1:08 - Brooklyn’s Background Brooklyn's background and experience with Elixir is deep. Huge open source contributor. Got started in Elixir just after Phoenix got to 1.0. 1:53 - Worked on several Elixir projects in production. 2:43 ...
Todd Resudek from Weedmaps - Elixir in Production
March 07, 2019 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MBWe talk with Todd Resudek from Weedmaps about their current Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Todd Resudek - Weedmaps (https://weedmaps.com/) Find Todd elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/sprsmpl https://github.com/supersimple 00:00 - Intro 01:06 - Tom introduces himself 02:54 - What is Weedmaps? 04:33 - Overview of the Elixir projects you have in production. 06:25 - Why are you using Elixir in production? 07:21 - Advantages / disadvantages of Elixir 10:37 - What do you use to ho...
Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 Lunchisode
March 06, 2019 08:15 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBWe sat down with numerous developers, including José Valim and Chris McCord, during the Saturday lunch at Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 (https://lonestarelixir.com/2019/). Hear what they had to say about the state of Elixir! Guests: José Valim - Creator of Elixir (https://elixir-lang.org/) Chris McCord - Creator of Phoenix (https://phoenixframework.org/) Paul Schoenfelder - Creator of Distillery (https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery), Timex (https://github.com/bitwalker/timex), Libcluster (http...
Ryan Billingsley from ClusterTruck - Elixir in Production
February 28, 2019 11:15 - 32 minutes - 30.6 MBWe talk with Ryan Billingsley from ClusterTruck about their current Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Ryan Billingsley - ClusterTruck (https://www.clustertruck.com/) Find Ryan elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/ryanbillingsley https://horriblenight.com/ 00:00 - Fade In 00:50 - Ryan introduces us to ClusterTruck. 02:00 - How did Ryan get into Elixir? 03:12 - Where does the name ClusterTruck come from? 04:17 - Tell us about the projects you have in production. 05:50 - Why are you us...
Dan Ivovich from SmartLogic - Elixir in Production
February 28, 2019 11:00 - 28 minutes - 27.3 MBWe talk with developers from the team here at SmartLogic about our current practices on deploying Elixir and Phoenix in production. Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smartlogic.io/phoenix-and-elixir) 00:00 - Fade In 00:30 - Introductions to Eric, Dan and SmartLogic Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic Eric Oestrich - Developer, Elixir Lead @ SmartLogic Justus Eapen - Full sta...
Smart Software Season 1 Trailer
February 25, 2019 15:00 - 1 minute - 986 KBWelcome to the first season of Smart Software with SmartLogic. We'll be interviewing several companies about how they use Elixir in Production this season. In this preview episode, we introduce ourselves and some of the topics we’ll be covering. Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smr.tl/2Hyslu8)