December 19, 2019

Chris Keathley Discusses Performance, Functional Programming, and Elixir at Bleacher Report

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Source: smartlogic.io

In this episode, Chris Keathley, a senior engineer at Bleacher Report and co-host of Elixir Outlaws, discusses his experiences with functional programming and the Elixir language. He introduces his recent project Norm, a tool for data validation, and contrasts it with Dialyzer. Chris elaborates on his introduction to Elixir through Haskell and Clojure, and the unique advantages of each language. He discusses the tradeoffs made to integrate with Erlang, and why Ruby on Rails remains relevant despite Elixir's growing use. He emphasizes the importance of community-driven projects in broadening Elixir’s adoption. At Bleacher Report, the focus is on optimizing for user capacity over speed, managing traffic spikes with Elixir’s ETS, and employing observability practices such as StatsD and Prometheus to predict and manage system loads.

Interview with Velina Petrova on LiveView and Blogging

The podcast episode discusses Velina Petrova's experience implementing a LiveView autocomplete feature and her thoughts on blogging and sharing knowledge in the Elixir community.

Apr 06, 2021

Discussion on Membrane Framework

Mark Ericksen: We talk with Marcin Lewandowski about Membrane Framework. We learn what it is, the project's goals, how people are using it and how it can solve the speed-to-market problem when streaming multimedia. We cover WebRTC, radio, industry challenges, why you want to deploy it to your own infrastructure, why startups fail and much more!

Apr 13, 2021

Exploring Elixir Data Types with Sasha Fonseca

Hosted by Mark Ericksen, David Bernheisel, and Cade Ward, this episode discusses Elixir data types with Sasha Fonseca, diving into memory usage, performance considerations, and binary leaks.

Apr 20, 2021