The Big Elixir 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| On Building Systems | Josh Adams | 47m |
Covers concrete system work: builds an OTP release with Elixir + Distillery, produces a multi-stage Docker image and pushes it via Google Cloud Build on… | ||
| TIL By Breaking Production... | Jon Carstens | 31m |
A series of production incidents shows concrete fixes: guard your numeric comparisons with is_number/1 guard to avoid surprisingly passing cases; enforce… | ||
| Going Multi-Node | Eric Oestrich | 35m |
Turns ExVenture into a cluster using LibCluster for node discovery, a Raft-based squabble leader election to pick a single leader that starts stateful zone… | ||
| Hot Upgrade Are Not Scary | Desmond Bowe | 41m |
Explains how hot upgrades actually work with concrete files and commands: appup/relup files generated by distillery, the VM functions behind suspend load code… | ||
| Cadre: Building Reliable Distributed Stateful Applications | Paul Schoenfelder | 50m |
Built a library called Cadre that models distributed state with a discrete-event simulator, pluggable key‑value persistence and selectable consistency backends… | ||
| Testing a Large GraphQL API With Aplomb | Jeff Martin | 49m |
Teachers Pay Teachers runs five Elixir web apps with a main GraphQL API serving about 3,000 requests per second and a test suite of 2,620 tests that run on… | ||
| Trapped By Our Tools | Ben Wilson | 45m |
Argues CRUD vocabulary narrows design and shows concrete alternatives: replaces REST verbs with Absinthe GraphQL mutations and subscriptions, records domain… | ||
| Exceptional: Staying on the Happy Path | Brooklyn Zelenka | 43m |
Exceptional is a library that treats Elixir exception structs as first-class, letting exception structs flow through pipelines instead of forcing tagged tuples… | ||
| Using OTP / Presence for Real-time Analytics | Jacqui Manzi, Matt McClure | 33m |
A realtime dashboard polls the analytics DB every five seconds and spins a per-organization supervision tree that launches four GenServer workers per… | ||
| Leveraging GenStage to Implement Your Own Event Bus | Eli Kim | 25m |
Frame.io replaces RabbitMQ/Kafka with a homegrown GenStage-based Event Bus that broadcasts standardized event structs to ~10–12 consumers, processes about 1.5M… | ||
| Physical Elixir | Justin Schneck | 52m |
Argues that Elixir/OTP runs as a first-class embedded platform using Nerves tooling and shows concrete results: cross‑compile with mix firmware and mix burn… | ||
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