68: Rust and Elixir with Nik Begley

We talk with Niklas Begley about his Doctave service and the problems it's solving. From there we cover why they use Rust for a key piece of the service and how Elixir fits in. We cover tools like Rustler for integrating Elixir and Rust smoothly. We talk about business drivers, Nik's experience building a SaaS product using Elixir and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/68

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/hauleth/mix_unused – Compile errors formatted to be machine readable to make it viewable directly in GitHub Code Scanning or GitLab Code Quality


• https://github.com/almightycouch/gitgud – GitHub-like self hosted project written in Elixir


• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/4471#issuecomment-931828623 – Phoenix 1.6.0 made an auth change with a bigger impact than was initially expected.


• https://www.tokens24.com/cryptopedia/mining/asic-mining-hashing-algorithm – ASIC hashing


• https://www.password-hashing.net/argon2-specs.pdf – Argon2 is a 'Memory Hard' hashing algorithm


• https://pragmaticstudio.com/tutorials/adding-tailwind-css-to-phoenix – Pragmatic Studio (Mike Clark) updated their guide on adding TailwindCSS for Phoenix 1.6


• https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1444664945396879361 – Gleam gets its own package manager

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

Discussion Resources

• https://blog.doctave.com/2021/08/19/using-rust-with-elixir-for-code-reuse-and-performance.html


• https://www.doctave.com


• https://github.com/Doctave/doctave


• https://github.com/Doctave/doctave-markdown


• https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-million-concurrent-users-c6f19fc029d3


• https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif


• https://www.writethedocs.org/guide/docs-as-code/


• https://backstage.io/docs/features/techdocs/techdocs-overview


• https://ziglang.org/


• https://mermaid-js.github.io/


• https://hex.pm/packages/rustler


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


• https://alpinejs.dev/

Guest Information

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


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


• https://www.doctave.com – Doctave website


• [email protected]

Find us online

• Message the show - @ThinkingElixir


• Email the show - [email protected]


• Mark Ericksen - @brainlid


• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel


• Cade Ward - @cadebward