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24 JAN 2025 · Welcome to another insightful episode of Elixir Mix, part of the Top End Devs podcast. In today’s conversation, our host Charles Max Wood and panelist Sasha Wolf welcome Ivan Rublev, a backend Elixir engineer with a particular focus on business domains like real estate and B2B.
Ivan dives deep into the Domo library—a project he started to address certain gaps he felt existed within Elixir’s type system. He explains how Domo provides meaningful errors by validating structures against type definitions both at compile-time and runtime. The discussion also covers the inspiration behind Domo, its practical applications, and performance considerations.
Moreover, Sasha and Ivan discuss potential use cases where Domo shines and some scenarios where it might not be the ideal tool. They also touch on domain-driven design principles and Ivan’s interest in seeing Domo deployed in large-scale systems with multiple microservices.
Don't miss it as they uncover the possibilities and limitations of Domo, its impact on compile times, and real-world testing scenarios. Plus, stay tuned till the end for some book recommendations and more details on how you can level up your development skills with Top End Devs.
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8 JAN 2025 · In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panelists talk with Alvise Susmel about building Elixir systems that leverage Python image detection on video frames. We cover Ports vs NIFs, using platforms for their strengths, cool embedded hardware, displaying real time results in Phoenix or Scenic, and much more!
Links
- https://www.poeticoding.com/real-time-object-detection-with-phoenix-and-python/
- https://www.cvlib.net/
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv
- https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Port.html
- http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/c_port.html
- https://pjreddie.com/darknet/yolo/
- http://erlang.org/doc/tutorial/nif.html
- https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-kit
- https://github.com/boydm/scenic
- https://www.poeticoding.com/
Picks
- Sophie - https://nostarch.com/blackhatgo
- Sophie - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11704040/
- Mark - https://a.hollywood.computer/
- Alvise - https://www.theerlangelist.com/article/outside_elixir
- Alvise - https://www.amazon.com/Designing-Data-Intensive-Applications-Reliable-Maintainable/dp/1449373321
- Alvise - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/
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1 JAN 2025 · In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Mariano Guerra. Mariano wrote some wonderful tutorial blogs outlining how to use Riak Core in Elixir. He begins the episode by sharing a little about himself and his work. Mariano then defines Riak Core and tells the story of where it came from. He explains what he loves about Riak Core and dubs himself the unofficial cheerleader of Riak Core.
Mariano tells the panel about his blog articles and what listeners will find in them. He explains to the panel what inspired him to write them. Mariano then gives the panel examples of the problems solved by Riak Core and the best use cases for it. Partisan is the next subject the panel asks Mariano about. Mariano shares the story of where Partisan came from and explains when you want to use it.
Finally, Mariano tells the panel about his work for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Right now he is working hard to unify the documentation for all the Beam languages. He shares his admiration for the Elixir documentation and explains that Erlang documentation needs a lot of work. The panel discusses how unifying the Beam will help the community and make their lives easier.
Links
- https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/tla/tla.html
- https://riak.com/products/#riak
- https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf
- https://github.com/basho/riak_core
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-introduction.html
- http://partisan.cloud/
- https://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-setup.html
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-getting-started.html
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-we-can-make-a-key-value-store-out-of-that.html
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-handoff.html
- http://marianoguerra.org/posts/riak-core-on-partisan-on-elixir-tutorial-resources.html
- https://gitlab.com/marianoguerra/civiledb/
- https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl
- https://twitter.com/warianoguerra
- https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix
- https://twitter.com/elixir_mix
Picks
- Mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sf6ToPNiA4
- Mark - https://www.cia.gov/news-information/featured-story-archive/2012-featured-story-archive/CleanedUOSSSimpleSabotage_sm.pdf
- Mariano - https://pragprog.com/book/fhproper/property-based-testing-with-proper-erlang-and-elixir
- Mariano - https://www.amazon.com/Practical-TLA-Planning-Driven-Development/dp/1484238281
- Josh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIQnleQPtZA
- Sophie - https://medium.com/flatiron-labs/how-to-compose-queries-in-ecto-b71311729dac
- Sophie - https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/basque-burnt-cheesecake
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25 DEC 2024 · In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Todd Resudeck about how digging into Erlang empowers you as an Elixir developer, what’s so fun about Nerves and what makes him such a charming and hilarious conference speaker.
Links
- https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwifrOeL8IHrAhXkUN8KHVFtDMUQwqsBMAJ6BAgKEBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DQXcedVc2LQM&usg=AOvVaw08T4pkvZOmcuFrIouxcmsd
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=JvBT4XBdoUE&feature=emb_logo
Picks
- Alex - https://akoutmos.com/post/actor-model-genserver-app-two/
- Alex - https://plausible.io/
- Bruce - https://grox.io/language/liveview/course
- Bruce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlDO07P3oL0
- Todd - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkDhU-2NWJ8
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18 DEC 2024 · In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Dosé joins us to talk about some of the open source work that he has done at Peek. He also talks to us about his exciting Nerves projects Xebow and AFK.
Links
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545
- https://github.com/doughsay
- https://github.com/ElixirSeattle/xebow
Picks
- Steven - https://www.jamesshore.com/v2/blog/2018/testing-without-mocks
- Steven - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
- Lars - https://hurryslowly.co/
- Lars - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBJ5SiwCNmU
- Chris - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVLTHGaTi7k
- Sophie - Anybody have any easy baking recipes?
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11 DEC 2024 · In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to.
Links
- https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@adolfont
- https://t.me/elixirconferences
- https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/telegram.md
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=oNuoVgfG7r4
- https://t.me/elixirconferences
Picks
- Steven - PDF Reader that does text to speech
- Josh - https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md
- Bruce - https://grox.io/language/liveview/course
- Bruce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdO4VN1IDI0
- Lars - https://devchat.tv/beambloggers.com
- Sophie - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Adolfo - https://t.me/elixir_world
- Adolfo - https://erlef.org/wg/education
- Adolfo - https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/resources/portuguese.md
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4 DEC 2024 · Given the current state of the world, we've been put into a position where things have lost jobs or lost in other areas of life. The panel discusses how to make the most of things when hard things come your way.
Links
- https://devchat.tv/ccp
- https://devchat.tv/sps
- https://devchat.tv/jobbook
- https://nathanbarry.com/authority/
- https://coronadevjobs.com/
- https://amzn.to/3bEohVr
- https://hackernoon.com/open-source-ventilator-projects-status-challenges-how-you-can-help-j3sw3wy1
Picks
- Soojin - Apple Store https://apps.apple.com/us/app/monument-valley-2/id1187265767
- Soojin - Google Play https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley2&hl=en_US
- Alex - https://store.steampowered.com/app/281990/Stellaris/
- Charles - https://devchat.tv/react-round-up/rru-104-how-to-start-a-side-hustle-as-a-programmer-with-mani-vaya/
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27 NOV 2024 · In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to.
Links
- https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@adolfont
- https://t.me/elixirconferences
- https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/telegram.md
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNuoVgfG7r4&feature=youtu.be
- https://t.me/elixirconferences
Picks
- Steven - PDF Reader that does text to speech
- Josh - https://github.com/github/archive-program/blob/master/TheTechTree.md
- Bruce - https://grox.io/language/liveview/course
- Bruce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdO4VN1IDI0
- Lars - https://devchat.tv/beambloggers.com
- Sophie - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
- Adolfo - https://t.me/elixir_world
- Adolfo - https://erlef.org/wg/education
- Adolfo - https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/resources/portuguese.md
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20 NOV 2024 · AJ Foster is a developer at Pluralsight. He talks about the course he made for Pluralsight about Elixir and then talks about how Elixir was brought into Pluralsight, both into their catalog of courses as well as into the tech stack for the company.
Links
- https://www.pluralsight.com/courses/elixir-big-picture
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXiiiLhwBI4&t=1140s
- https://elixirdiff.com/?from=elixir--1.11.3--base&to=elixir--1.11.3--sup
- http://erlang.org/doc/man/heart.html
- https://principlesofchaos.org/
- https://github.com/aj-foster/
- https://twitter.com/Austin_J_Foster
Picks
- AJ- https://github.com/aj-foster/absinthe-socket-transport
- AJ- https://www.firstinspires.org/
- Allen- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXiiiLhwBI4&t=1140s
- Allen- https://www.zero2prod.com/index.html?country=Philippines&discount_code=SEA60
- Eric- https://amzn.to/2WSHDER
- Sascha- https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/
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13 NOV 2024 · This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles.
They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them.
Links
- https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/specifics/ets/
- https://erldocs.com/18.0/stdlib/dets.html
- https://mrjoelkemp.medium.com/jvm-struggles-and-the-beam-4d9c58547410
Picks
- Adi- https://medium.com/hassans-tech-blog/how-to-split-a-router-into-multiple-modules-using-phoenix-e70c691ba92d
- Adi- https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeNJ7PPlCogVcxFf2XDc6i6xYDW_XbNY19KlrMHYbowdvU1jw/viewform
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| Organization | Top End Devs |
| Categories | Technology , Careers , How To |
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