Elixir Mix

Today we talk with Thibaut Barrère, an independent consultant, working with development, data pipelines, and extract, transform, load (ETL) work.  He comes to us with a lot of experience in Elixir, Ruby, Ansible, and Javascript...

Michael Fich joins the show today to share how he implemented the PostgreSQL schema to enhance the Elixir workflows at his organization, the Score, based in Toronto Canada.  Sascha and Allen also provide additional insights and deep dive into their experience with PostgreSQL models...

Today we talk with Wojtek Mach from Dashbit, about the Livebook Desktop app, a tool for writing interactive and collaborative code notebooks.  Dashbit primarily works with clients, helping companies adopt and run Elixir.  We talk about the history of how Livebook came to be, and the challenges of developing for desktop apps.  We also get a sneak peak into what is coming soon...

With day-to-day development, it is vital to ensure our workflows are optimized and that developer time is utilized efficiently.  Today on the show, Szymon Soppa shares about what we should do with our Elixir CIs to ensure this optimization and developer efficiencies are maximized for production...

Today we talk with Louis Pilfold, an ex-elixir/Lang developer.  Since 2018, Louis has been working on Gleam, and hesitantly admits to being its author.  This statically typed language that runs on Erlang virtual machine and draws its inspiration from several other languages.  With Gleam gaining a lot of traction, it’s definitely worth a look into this up and coming gem...

Today we talk with Louis Pilfold, an ex-elixir/Lang developer.  Since 2018, Louis has been working on Gleam, and hesitantly admits to being its author.  This statically typed language that runs on Erlang virtual machine and draws its inspiration from several other languages.  With Gleam gaining a lot of traction, it’s definitely worth a look into this up and coming gem...

In this episode of the Mix the panelists talk about Seniority. They lay out their own personal journeys towards getting a senior title and how they define seniority for themselves - especially how it goes beyond the ability to write code well...

In today’s all-panelist episode, we take a shot at demystify domain-driven design.  We discuss several books and some concepts that stand out in those texts.  How easy or hard do Elixir and Phoenix make it to apply DDD principles?  We give our experience with taking these concepts and putting them into practice, and give some tips and resources for getting started.

Some of the topics covered:

• Tactical vs...

Today Adi, one of our hosts and the hiring manager at Elixir, talks about the intricacies of applying for a job, and what companies to search out.  We talk about the expectations for the applicant, and how to prepare.  We also talk about what you can look for the employer to provide before spending too much of your time in the interview process.  Walking through various interview processes, we learn what things can help you land the job you want...

In this episode the panel talks to Danny Hawkins - CTO at Quiqup - and his team's journey at Quiqup with Elixir. Danny explains how some of the first things Quiqup built were using Elixir and how they then left Elixir behind in favor of TypeScript, only to come back to Elixir...