Elixir Mix

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Panel

• Mark Ericksen

• Josh Adams

• Michael Ries

Joined by Special Guests: Eric Meadows-Jönsson & Andrea Leopardi

Summary

Eric Meadows-Jönsson and Andrea Leopardi, members of the Elixir core team discuss the upcoming Mint library. They tell the panel their experience working on the core team and on the Mint library. They explain what Mint is and why people should know about it. Mint doesn’t use processes; Eric and Andrea explain why and what that means for the library. The panel discusses the benefits of using Mint and the use cases it can be applied to. Eric and Andrea give an update on how Mint is coming and explains why mint is not part of Elixir core. The panel considers building an HTTP library; Eric and Andrea share their experience.

Links

• http://erlang.org/doc/man/httpc.html 

• https://github.com/ericmj/castore 

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/02/25/mint-a-new-http-library-for-elixir/#safe-by-default-https 

• https://github.com/appcues/mojito 

• https://segment.com/blog/introducing-centrifuge/ 

• https://github.com/hexpm/hex 

• https://github.com/ericmj/mint 

• https://hexdocs.pm/mint/api-reference.html 

• https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2019/02/25/mint-a-new-http-library-for-elixir/ 

• https://twitter.com/inconvergent/status/1139070281971118085?s=19 

• https://twitter.com/emjii 

• https://twitter.com/whatyouhide 

• https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-sous-vide-gear/ 

• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix 

• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks

Mark Ericksen:

• https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4  - They added Chapter 14, “What’s Next?” In it we address LiveViewPubSub 2.0, adding “telemetry” information to Phoenix and other coming additions.

Josh Adams:

• Meat

• https://inconvergent.net/2019/depth-of-field/ 

Michael Ries:

• Matthew Nowack - ZenMonitor: Scaling Distributed Monitoring at Discord | Code BEAM SF 19 

• My New Croissant Machine Is 3D-PRINTED ! 

Andrea Leopardi:

• https://github.com/whatyouhide/after8 

• https://github.com/appcues/mojito 

• https://mizage.com/shush/ 

Eric Meadows-Jönsson:

• https://inkdrop.app/

• https://pragprog.com/book/wmecto/programming-ecto

Special Guests: Andrea Leopardi and Eric Meadows-Jönsson.

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