November 10, 2023

Kafka's Role in Scaling Backend Services and Team Structure with Elixir

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Jeffery Utter presents insights into scaling teams and backend services using Kafka and Elixir, highlighting the growth of theScore team and how Kafka has facilitated the development of autonomous, decoupled teams. He addresses the trade-offs of technology choices, sharing experiences of both 'horror stories' and triumphs. Attendees are shown technical and social facets of employing Kafka and its organizational implications, with a focus on Elixir's role. The presenter, a Staff software engineer, and Tech lead at theScore, shares his journey and elaborates on how Kafka works as a distributed and partitioned log, not merely as a message bus. He also explains how using Kafka contributes to ensuring messages are processed in order while providing durability through replication, allowing for horizontal scaling of workers. To address common Kafka pain points, he mentions the need for dead letter queues and transactional producers and discusses producer and consumer concurrency improvements for Elixir applications.

Elixir Performance Optimization Techniques

In this presentation, Tyler Young discusses various performance enhancement techniques within the Elixir programming language. He provided insights into optimizing Elixir applications, with a focus on CPU performance improvement tactics.

Jan 01, 2023

Elixir 1.16 introduces the ability to run multiple tests specifying line numbers

In Elixir 1.16, it is now possible to run multiple test files with line numbers using the "mix test" command. This new feature allows for more precise testing and debugging.

Nov 08, 2023

Developing a Chessboard Image to FEN Converter with Elixir

Barrett Helms presents at ElixirConf 2023 about building an image recognition system in Elixir that converts pictures of a chessboard into Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) for efficient storage and renders an interactive board in the UI. Through his talk, Barrett shares his journey of encountering the problem while building a web app for practicing chess tactics and finding a solution using Elixir.

Nov 09, 2023