# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean StavropoulosWe're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL.In this show, we touc…

# Episode 165 - José Valim on Bytepack, Open Source, and LiveView changes in Phoenix 1.5Chris and Desmond are backed by a very special guest; José Valim! You might know José as the creator of the Elixir programming language and we're excited to have him back as a 3rd time guest on the show.José walks us through a brand new Dashbit project, Bytepack…

We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode Chris & Desmond do a deep dive on organizing code in Elixir and talk about some best practices. We recorded this a couple weeks ago so it may sound a little stale :)We touch on:* Module and context naming* How we like to organize code in our projects* Big long modules vs many small modu…

We’re back with a recap with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode we cover quite a few topics; an EMPEX LA recap, a foray into project management tools that we like and use (!), and then we round things out by talking about Chris integrating App Signal into his API at Muru.It’s a fun, jam packed episode with us going all around through ma…

# Episode 162 - Designing Elixir Systems with Bruce TateIt's another episode of ElixirTalk, this time Chris and Desmond are joined by the one and only Bruce Tate author of many notable titles such as Programming Phoenix and Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, as well as being a frequent speaker on the circuit.We dig into the new Designing Elixir System…

# Episode 161 - feat. Todd Resudek We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk, this time joined by the one and only Todd Resudek who gives us a run through of his talk at this years EMPEX LA entitled “It’s Time to Embrace Erlang”.Listen in to hear us discuss Todd’s nerve projects (including his recent LiveView Smart Mirror), why Todd thinks lear…

We’re back! It’s been a while but it’s 2020 and Chris and Desmond are back with a new episode for the new decade. In this very timely episode we dive into the big community news; Plataformatec being acquired and what that means for the community and the new Elixir v1.10-rc.0 release.After that, we accidentally stray once again into a spirited discu…

Chris and Desmond are back! In this episode we talk about Desmond’s exploration into Property-Based testing, and then do a deep dive into authorization and access control in Chris’ GraphQL API.Property-based testing is a new world for both of us, but we do our best to tell you all about what libraries to use and how we’re thinking of using it.Chris…

# Episode 158 - Oban, Background Jobs and Designing Resilient Systems in Elixir.In this episode of ElixirTalk Chris & Desmond dive into background jobs using Oban, a new library that relies on Postgres to add persistence to job scheduling.We discuss why you’d want to reach for a library like Oban in the first place, which leads us to a discussion o…

# Episode 157 – LiveView & The Future of Phoenix ft. Chris McCordToday on ElixirTalk we’re joined by Chris McCord who you may know as the creator of the Phoenix framework, and a second time guest on ElixirTalk.In this episode we talk quite a bit about LiveView, the journey of taking it from a prototype to release, the optimizations that have come a…

# Episode 156 - Desmond & Chris face-to-faceIn todays special episode Desmond and Chris are together in NYC in-person for the first time in the history of recording Elixir talk.In the episode we dig into Desmond’s new role as CTO at Payitoff and talk about how Elixir helps in managing the complexity of student loans processing. We also discuss best…

# Episode #155 - A special look into LumenToday we have an extra special episode for you where we dig into a project you may have seen announced at the recent US Elixir Conference; Lumen, which is an alternate BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly.On the show we’re joined by the core members of the Lumen team: Brian Cardarella, Paul Schoenf…

ElixirTalk Episode 154 – ElixirConf recap and more!We’re back with another ElixirTalk episode after a short break! This time featuring Chris and Desmond reflecting on a great ElixirConf! We discuss our standout talks, as well as digging into the keynotes from Dockyard (Lumen), José Valim, Justin Schneck and Chris McCord.At the end of the episode we…

Episode 153 – The Dream stack with Rust & Elixir feat. Dave LuciaWe kick things off by hearing about the newly launched Elixir Training :tada: which y’all should check out if you’re looking to learn the language, or have friends who might.In todays episode we’re joined by Dave Lucia, VP of Engineering at SimpleBet where we hear about the use of the…

# Episode 152 - The joys of EctoThis week it’s a Chris & Desmond episode! We kick things off by hearing all about Desmond’s latest project – Hire an Elixir Developer – a job board to help companies attract Elixir talent that’s launching soon.We dig into how Desmond has been writing his latest project, hear a bit about how he’s using LiveView and ho…

# Episode 151 – Dave Thomas & Brian MitchellIn this special episode of ElixirTalk we are joined by Dave Thomas and Brian Mitchell where we continue a discussion thatwe had at EMPEX NYC this year as a fishbowl style format. If you haven’t yet seen the talk, you can do so here: https://youtu.be/pcbNT1iKebc –– probably best if you watch before listeni…

Episode 150 - Clojerl with Juan FacorroThis week on the show we’re joined by Juan Facorro, an avid Erlang-er and creator of Clojerl, a Clojure port written in Erlang.We give you an update about Elixir Training, and tell you a bit more about a potential bar / meetup we at EMPEX will be hosting during ElixirConf this year in Denver (if we can find a …

This week we don’t have a guest, so it’s just Chris & Desmond. We kick things off discussing our opening music and how weird it is listening to yourself on a podcast.Desmond tells us about his exploration into webflow and his love (hate) for CSS. We dig into bits in the language that still trip us up, even now with our experience in the language. W…

Elixir Talk 148 - Feat Maxim FederovDesmond gives us an update on his truck and the work he’s been doing there. Chris tells us about how he’s been getting back into coding and how he’s been writing Absinthe and GraphQL.We announce a special new announcement: the launch of Elixir Training, our new business where we’re going out and looking to train …

*SHOW NOTES*- https://murumed.com- https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe- https://www.amazon.com/Craft-GraphQL-APIs-Elixir-Absinthe-ebook/dp/B07CSMHPKY/- https://www.dropbox.com/s/6nn78jtf8ighry0/desmond-truck.jpg?dl=0- https://crevalle.io- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvBT4XBdoUE- https://www.instagram.com/thecolossusofroads/…

** SHOW NOTES **- https://twitter.com/bgmarx- https://bgmarx.com/- https://www.amazon.com/Adopting-Elixir-Production-Ben-Marx/dp/1680502522- https://dev.bleacherreport.com/diving-into-distributed-tracing-ce9638025576?gi=9f12645e5745- https://elixirconf.com/2019/training-classes/1- https://eventvivo.com/event/elixirconf-2019…

* Fred Hebert: https://twitter.com/mononcqc* The Zen of Erlang: https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html* Erlang Ecosystem Foundation: https://erlef.org* Property-Based Testing Blog Post: https://ferd.ca/property-based-testing-with-proper-erlang-and-elixir.html* Property-Based Testing Book: https://pragprog.com/book/fhproper/property-based-testing-wi…

** SHOW NOTES**- Martin Sumner: https://twitter.com/masleeds- Riak: https://github.com/basho/riak- Spine: https://digital.nhs.uk/services/spine- Bet365 buys Basho assets: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/25/bet365_to_buy_basho_release_code/- Martin's talk on Anti-Entropy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCiHqF_XTmE…

**SHOW NOTES*** Joe Armstrong: https://twitter.com/FrancescoC/status/1119596234166218754* Joe's Thesis: http://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf* Erlang the Movie (OMG!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKfKtXYLG78* Erlang the Musical (really?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upiNIQOS4WE* EMPEX: https://empex.co/nyc* Contexts, pt 1: ht…

**SHOW NOTES**- Sophie DeBenedetto: @sm_debenedetto- ElixirSchool: https://elixirschool.com/en/- The Flatiron School: https://flatironschool.com/- Great Code Adventure: http://thegreatcodeadventure.com/- Troy's Cocktails Podcast: https://www.briefs.fm/cocktailing- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation: https://erlef.org/- EMPEX NYC: https://empex.co/nyc…