61: Elixir's Recent Brex-it

We cover the news then talk about the Brex announcement that they are shifting to a Kotlin-first strategy over Elixir. This reminds us of patterns we’ve seen in our careers and we reflect on what it means to us personally and professionally. We share our perspectives on Elixir, how it’s different from the languages we’ve used before and the unique value we get from it.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/61

Elixir Community News

• https://medium.com/brexeng/building-backend-services-with-kotlin-7c8410795e4b – Brex announcement they are moving to Kotlin first


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#0160-2021-08-10 – LiveView 0.16 released


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/vscode-phoenix – VSCode support for HEEx is coming in new extension


• https://github.com/nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter/pull/1700/files – nvim-treesitter gets HEEx support


• https://elixirforum.com/t/introducing-elixirls-the-elixir-language-server/5857/136 – ElixirLS 0.8.0 released


• https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.18.0 – Erlang LS 0.18.0 released


• https://pragprog.com/titles/sgdpelixir/concurrent-data-processing-in-elixir/ – Book "Concurrent Data Processing in Elixir" released by PragProg


• https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub – Book club is reading through this book right now if you're interested


• https://github.com/wyeworks/boom – WyeWorks has an open source library called "boom" that was inspired by the ExceptionNotification Rack/Rails gem


• https://github.com/mcrumm/live_upload_example/pull/7 – Example showing how to crop a photo using the croppr.js library and LiveView


• https://slab.com/blog/announcing-delta-for-elixir/ – Slab open-sourced their Operational Transforms library that pairs nicely with Quill, the JavaScript collaborative editor


• https://github.com/slab/delta-elixir – Slab's OT project


• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/048-ecto-associations-with-sheharyar-naseer/ – Interview with Sheharyar Naseer from Slab

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

Discussion Resources

• https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/059-how-elixir-came-to-spotify-with-joel-kemp/


• https://twitter.com/ChrisKeathley/status/1425471653014876163


• https://www.theregister.com/2012/11/08/twitter_epic_traffic_saved_by_java/


• https://www.infoq.com/articles/twitter-java-use/


• https://sysgears.com/articles/how-and-why-twitter-uses-scala/


• https://github.blog/2009-10-20-how-we-made-github-fast/


• https://developer.github.com/changes/2018-04-25-github-services-deprecation/


• https://www.infoq.com/presentations/github-rails-monolith-microservices/

Find us online

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• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


• Cade Ward - @cadebward