Interview with Greg Mefford on Nerves and System Architecture

In this podcast episode, Greg Mefford, senior back-end engineer for the Bleacher Report, shares insights into system architecture, his journey from loving Ruby to discovering Elixir and Nerves, and the documentation he created to aid newcomers. Greg details his job at Bleacher Report, emphasizing the switch from Ruby to Elixir servers, and explores the concept of architecture and the many aspects of design and code translation in software development. The episode touches on his views on domain-driven design, pre-code planning, and introduces his contributions to the Elixir and Nerves community, including the creation of the Blinkchain library. Greg also highlights the Poncho project system designed to address issues in Nerves not covered by Umbrella apps and nostalgically talks about his experience with multi-user dungeons (MUDs).