61: Elixir's Recent Brex-it

We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally. We share our perspectives on Elixir, how it’s different from the languages we’ve used before and the unique value we get from it.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61)
Elixir Community News
- https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-kotlin-7c8410795e4b (https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-kotlin-7c8410795e4b) – Brex announcement they are moving to Kotlin first
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenixliveview/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0160-2021-08-10 (https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0160-2021-08-10) – LiveView 0.16 released
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/vscode-phoenix (https://github.com/phoenixframework/vscode-phoenix) – VSCode support for HEEx is coming in new extension
- https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1700/files (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1700/files) – nvim-treesitter gets HEEx support
- https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/136 (https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/136) – ElixirLS 0.8.0 released
- https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.18.0 (https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.18.0) – Erlang LS 0.18.0 released
- https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-processing-in-elixir/ (https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-processing-in-elixir/) – Book "Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir" released by PragProg
- https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub (https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub) – Book club is reading through this book right now if you're interested
- https://github.com/wyeworks/boom (https://github.com/wyeworks/boom) – WyeWorks has an open source library called "boom" that was inspired by the ExceptionNotification Rack/Rails gem
- https://github.com/mcrumm/liveuploadexample/pull/7 (https://github.com/mcrumm/live_upload_example/pull/7) – Example showing how to crop a photo using the croppr.js library and LiveView
- https://slab.com/blog/announcing-delta-for-elixir/ (https://slab.com/blog/announcing-delta-for-elixir/) – Slab open-sourced their Operational Transforms library that pairs nicely with Quill, the JavaScript collaborative editor
- https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir (https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir) – Slab's OT project
- https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/048-ecto-associations-with-sheharyar-naseer/ (https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/048-ecto-associations-with-sheharyar-naseer/) – Interview with Sheharyar Naseer from Slab
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://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/059-how-elixir-came-to-spotify-with-joel-kemp/ (https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/059-how-elixir-came-to-spotify-with-joel-kemp/)
- https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley/status/1425471653014876163 (https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley/status/1425471653014876163)
- https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitterepictrafficsavedby_java/ (https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/)
- https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/ (https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/)
- https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/ (https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/)
- https://github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast/ (https://github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast/)
- https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/ (https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/)
- https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-microservices/ (https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-microservices/)
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)

We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally. We share our perspectives on Elixir, how it’s different from the languages we’ve used before and the unique value we get from it.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61

Elixir Community News

https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-kotlin-7c8410795e4b – Brex announcement they are moving to Kotlin first
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0160-2021-08-10 – LiveView 0.16 released
https://github.com/phoenixframework/vscode-phoenix – VSCode support for HEEx is coming in new extension
https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1700/files – nvim-treesitter gets HEEx support
https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/136 – ElixirLS 0.8.0 released
https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.18.0 – Erlang LS 0.18.0 released
https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-processing-in-elixir/ – Book "Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir" released by PragProg
https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub – Book club is reading through this book right now if you're interested
https://github.com/wyeworks/boom – WyeWorks has an open source library called "boom" that was inspired by the ExceptionNotification Rack/Rails gem
https://github.com/mcrumm/live_upload_example/pull/7 – Example showing how to crop a photo using the croppr.js library and LiveView
https://slab.com/blog/announcing-delta-for-elixir/ – Slab open-sourced their Operational Transforms library that pairs nicely with Quill, the JavaScript collaborative editor
https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir – Slab's OT project
https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/048-ecto-associations-with-sheharyar-naseer/ – Interview with Sheharyar Naseer from Slab

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

Discussion Resources

https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/059-how-elixir-came-to-spotify-with-joel-kemp/
https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley/status/1425471653014876163
https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/
https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/
https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/
https://github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast/
https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-microservices/

Find us online

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