Discussing Protocols in Elixir with Yiming Chen from Tubi

This podcast episode features Yiming Chen from Tubi, who shares insights on his journey into programming, his transition from Ruby to Elixir, and how he uses Elixir in his projects. Yiming discusses the power of protocols in Elixir, highlighting a project where he used protocols for transferring files between cloud providers. This project led him to create Promox, a testing framework, and he explains the advantages of protocols such as enabling polymorphic logic and defining shared interfaces explicitly. The episode also touches on the advantages of Elixir over Ruby, especially in terms of concurrency and maintainability of applications. Additionally, Yiming shares his thoughts on the Elixir community in China and the potential growth of the language globally.