51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas

We talk with Alex Loukissas about using Phoenix sockets to provide live auction systems. We comment on the situation of flash-mob-like users coming to a system and needing to handle high traffic volumes for shorter durations. We talk about how the Horde library helps solve fun distributed clustering problems, we cover observability tools, how and why companies should support open source development through sponsorships and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1 – Elixir 1.12.1 released. Small set of bug fixes.


• https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir – New tree-sitter Elixir parser. Used in Atom, Neovim and Emacs


• https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/


• https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter


• https://github.com/nvim-treesitter


• https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/ – Mark's Fly.io blog post on using Livebook as a project documentation tool


• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367 – Jose Valim teases new Livebook feature with this graphic


• https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples – Wojtek Mach created a repo showing example usages of Mix.install.


• https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109 – Support for "curl url | sh" style scripts using Elixir


• https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878 – Stack Overflow survey is out and both Erlang/Elixir are on the menu.


• https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/


• https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM

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

Discussion Resources

• http://whatnot.com


• https://www.splunk.com/


• https://reactnative.dev/


• https://kotlinlang.org/


• https://swift.org/


• https://goshippo.com/


• https://github.com/derekkraan/horde


• https://fly.io/


• https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/


• https://newrelic.com/


• https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/


• https://www.honeycomb.io/


• https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/aloukissas – on Twitter


• https://github.com/aloukissas – on Github


• https://alexloukissas.com – Blog

Find us online

• Message the show - @ThinkingElixir


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• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


• Cade Ward - @cadebward