October 24, 2023

Implementing an Elixir-Based Distributed Router for GDPR Compliance

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De Wet Blomerus presents the challenge and solution to comply with GDPR by moving EU customers' authentication requests to a new instance of their legacy Rails login service located within the EU. To achieve this goal, a globally distributed router was built using Elixir. This router routes traffic according to the region, ensuring EU traffic remains confined within EU borders, addressing both latency and privacy concerns. Elixir was selected for this task because it can manage high-density traffic, it is equipped to handle long-lived network connections, and it allows complex routing logic to be broken down into comprehensible steps using `Plug.Conn`. Throughout the development, the team encountered and learned from certain mistakes, such as over-optimizing for performance, underestimating resource requirements, and misjudging the project's complexity. Ultimately, their Elixir service provided a fast, GDPR-compliant routing mechanism that added minimal latency to user transactions.

Enhancing Complex Data Processing with DAGs in Elixir

Zack Kayzer and Stephanie Lane present a talk at ElixirConf 2023, discussing how to solve problems with complex module interdependencies using Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) and their abstraction called Pacer.Workflow.

Oct 13, 2023

Automated Telemetry for Elixir Production Environments

Chris Bailey discusses the work that his team at Vetspire has done to automate the process of bootstrapping an easy, ergonomic Telemetry solution for Elixir production apps, making good metrics/traces/telemetry less manual, repetitive, and error-prone.

Oct 23, 2023

Balancing Technical Skills with Vision, Leadership, and Communication in Software Engineering

Miki Rezentes discusses the importance of vision, leadership, and communication in software engineering, and how these qualities contribute to the overall success of a developer, regardless of title or position.

Oct 11, 2023