142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production

Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Phoenix 1.7.1 released with enhancement to phx.new
- https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62 (https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Diff for the sizable project changes as heroicons are added
- https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ (https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Multi-letter uppercase sigils being added to Elixir
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Expanded sigil support already merged in
- https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922 (https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – German Velasco's collection of short videos about Phoenix 1.7
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8 (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – YouTube playlist of the short videos
- https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816 (https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Tip from German on using phx-mounted binding to do initial animations with JS transitions
- https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes (https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – A mix task was created to help projects migrate to verified routes by the people at Fullstack Phoenix.
- https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd (https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gist for mix task converttoverifiedroutes.ex
- https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473 (https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Quick bash script to launch a LiveBook connected to your Fly instance
- https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/ (https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Flowbite has TailwindCSS styled components and just added a “getting started with Phoenix” guide.
- https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722 (https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – All LiveView Native SwiftUI views are complete. On to Modifiers
- https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 (https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Github checklist of SwiftUI views
- https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1 (https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – OTP 26 RC 1 bring improvements
- https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367 (https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Dialyzer gets an --incremental
- https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/ (https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Gleam v0.27 released
- https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register (https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm on Fri, 12 May 202 - one day conference and early bird tickets are on sale now
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion (https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976 (https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion (https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Started as a 2021 Spawnfest entry that didn't complete
- https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811 (https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Difference from FlameOn Twitter discussion
- https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560 (https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Comment about immutable filesystems
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html (https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html (https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html (https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on (https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://github.com/strace/strace (https://github.com/strace/strace?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://strace.io/ (https://strace.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing (https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://github.com/ferd/recon/ (https://github.com/ferd/recon/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms (https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms (https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html (https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://hex.pm/packages/xprof (https://hex.pm/packages/xprof?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/ (https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://ebpf.io/ (https://ebpf.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://userinyerface.com/ (https://userinyerface.com/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
- https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/ (https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/di4naO (https://twitter.com/di4naO?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/DianaOlympos/ (https://github.com/DianaOlympos/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – on Github
- https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na (https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – on Fediverse
- https://www.softwaremaxims.com/ (https://www.softwaremaxims.com/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Blog
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Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142

Elixir Community News

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02 – Phoenix 1.7.1 released with enhancement to phx.new
https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62 – Diff for the sizable project changes as hero_icons are added
https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ – Multi-letter uppercase sigils being added to Elixir
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448 – Expanded sigil support already merged in
https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922 – German Velasco's collection of short videos about Phoenix 1.7
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8 – YouTube playlist of the short videos
https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816 – Tip from German on using phx-mounted binding to do initial animations with JS transitions
https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes – A mix task was created to help projects migrate to verified routes by the people at Fullstack Phoenix.
https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd – Gist for mix task convert_to_verified_routes.ex
https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473 – Quick bash script to launch a LiveBook connected to your Fly instance
https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/ – Flowbite has TailwindCSS styled components and just added a “getting started with Phoenix” guide.
https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722 – All LiveView Native SwiftUI views are complete. On to Modifiers
https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 – Github checklist of SwiftUI views
https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1 – OTP 26 RC 1 bring improvements
https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367 – Dialyzer gets an --incremental
https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/ – Gleam v0.27 released
https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register – CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm on Fri, 12 May 202 - one day conference and early bird tickets are on sale now

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion
https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976
https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion – Started as a 2021 Spawnfest entry that didn't complete
https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811 – Difference from FlameOn Twitter discussion
https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560 – Comment about immutable filesystems
https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html
https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html
https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html
https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on
https://github.com/strace/strace
https://strace.io/
https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing
https://github.com/ferd/recon/
https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms
https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms
https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html
https://hex.pm/packages/xprof
https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/
https://ebpf.io/
https://userinyerface.com/
https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/di4naO – on Twitter
https://github.com/DianaOlympos/ – on Github
https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na – on Fediverse
https://www.softwaremaxims.com/ – Blog

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected]
Email the show - [email protected]
Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected]
David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected]
Cade Ward - @cadebward
Cade Ward on Fediverse - @[email protected]

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