Welcome to another insightful episode of Elixir Mix, part of the Top End Devs podcast. In today’s conversation, our host Charles Max Wood and panelist Sasha Wolf welcome Ivan Rublev, a backend Elixir engineer with a particular focus on business domains like real estate and B2B.

Ivan dives deep into the Domo library—a project he started to address certain gaps he felt existed within Elixir’s type system. He explains how Domo provides meaningful errors by validating structures against type definitions both at compile-time and runtime. The discussion also covers the inspiration behind Domo, its practical applications, and performance considerations.

Moreover, Sasha and Ivan discuss potential use cases where Domo shines and some scenarios where it might not be the ideal tool. They also touch on domain-driven design principles and Ivan’s interest in seeing Domo deployed in large-scale systems with multiple microservices.

Don't miss it as they uncover the possibilities and limitations of Domo, its impact on compile times, and real-world testing scenarios. Plus, stay tuned till the end for some book recommendations and more details on how you can level up your development skills with Top End Devs.


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In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panelists talk with Alvise Susmel about building Elixir systems that leverage Python image detection on video frames. We cover Ports vs NIFs, using platforms for their strengths, cool embedded hardware, displaying real time results in Phoenix or Scenic, and much more!

Links

• Real-time Object Detection with Phoenix and Python
• cvlib
• GitHub opencv/opencv
• Hexdocs Elixir/Port
• Erlang 4 Ports
• Yolo
• Erlang 8 NIFs
• Jetson Nano Developer Kit
• GitHub boydm/scenic
• Poeticcoding

Picks

• Sophie - Black Hat Go
• Sophie - Love Is Blind
• Mark - Hollywood.computer
• Alvise  - Outside Elixir
• Alvise  - Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Alvise  - Dark

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In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Mariano Guerra. Mariano wrote some wonderful tutorial blogs outlining how to use Riak Core in Elixir. He begins the episode by sharing a little about himself and his work. Mariano then defines Riak Core and tells the story of where it came from. He explains what he loves about Riak Core and dubs himself the unofficial cheerleader of Riak Core.
 
Mariano tells the panel about his blog articles and what listeners will find in them. He explains to the panel what inspired him to write them. Mariano then gives the panel examples of the problems solved by Riak Core and the best use cases for it. Partisan is the next subject the panel asks Mariano about. Mariano shares the story of where Partisan came from and explains when you want to use it. 
 
Finally, Mariano tells the panel about his work for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Right now he is working hard to unify the documentation for all the Beam languages. He shares his admiration for the Elixir documentation and explains that Erlang documentation needs a lot of work. The panel discusses how unifying the Beam will help the community and make their lives easier. 


Links

• TLA+ 
• Riak Products 
• Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store  
• https://github.com/basho/riak_core 
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Introduction 
• http://partisan.cloud/ 
• https://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/ 
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Setup 
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Getting Started   
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: We can make a Key Value Store out of that 
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Migrating Data with Handoff 
• Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Resources 
• https://gitlab.com/marianoguerra/civiledb/ 
• https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl 
• https://twitter.com/warianoguerra
• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix 
• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks

• Mark - Immutability - Computerphile 
• Mark - Simple Sabotage Field Manual  
• Mariano - Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir
• Mariano - Practical TLA+: Planning Driven Development
• Josh - Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak Core, Riak KV, and Webmachine: Jesse Newland 
• Sophie - How to Compose Queries in Ecto 
• Sophie - Basque Burnt Cheesecake 

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In this episode of Elixir Mix, we talk with Todd Resudeck about how digging into Erlang empowers you as an Elixir developer, what’s so fun about Nerves and what makes him such a charming and hilarious conference speaker.

Links

• What Elixir is about – José Valim – Erlang User Conference 2015
• GOTO 2019 • The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Saša Jurić

Picks

• Alex - https://akoutmos.com/post/actor-model-genserver-app-two/
• Alex - https://plausible.io/
• Bruce  - https://grox.io/language/liveview/course
• Bruce  - Programmer Passport: Phoenix LiveView – Bonus Video – phx.gen.auth
• Todd - ElixirConf 2016 – Selling Food With Elixir by Chris Bell

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In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Dosé joins us to talk about some of the open source work that he has done at Peek. He also talks to us about his exciting Nerves projects Xebow and AFK.

Links

• iCalendar
• GitHub Chris Dosé
• GitHub ElixirSeattle/xebow

Picks

• Steven - The Art of Agile James Shore
• Steven - US History YouTube
• Lars - Hurry Slowly
• Lars - Peter van Roy - KEYTNOTE Why time is evil indistributed systems l Code BEAM STO 19
• Chris - ElixirConf 2018 - Picking Properties to Test in Property Based Testing - Michael Stalker
• Sophie - Anybody have any easy baking recipes?

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In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to.

Links

• https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@adolfont
• https://t.me/elixirconferences
• https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/telegram.md
• Adolfo Neto: My three favorite resources for learning Elixir
• https://t.me/elixirconferences

Picks 

• Steven - PDF Reader that does text to speech
• Josh - GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree 
• Bruce  - grox.io/language/liveview/course
• Bruce - Keynote: Build Good Software: Of Politics and Methods – Brian L. Troutwine 
• Lars - BEAM Bloggers Webring 
• Sophie  - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein 
• Adolfo - Telegram Group for Alchemists
• Adolfo - Education Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
• Adolfo - Elixir Resources in Portuguese

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Given the current state of the world, we've been put into a position where things have lost jobs or lost in other areas of life. The panel discusses how to make the most of things when hard things come your way.

Links

• Course Creator Pro
• How To Write & Launch Your Book To $10,000 in 90 Days
• The MaxCoders Guide To Finding Your Dream Developer Job
• Authority
• Corona Dev Jobs
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Hackernoon

Picks

• Soojin - Apple Store Monument Valley 2
• Soojin - Google Play Monument Valley 2
• Alex - Stellaris
• Charles - RRU 104: How to Start a Side Hustle as a Programmer with Mani Vaya

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In this episode of Elixir Mix, we chat with Adolfo Neto, a professor of computer science at UTFPR in Brazil, about what it’s like to teach Elixir, how we as educators can support the Elixir community to grow and thrive, and what the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation’s Education Working Group is up to.

Links

• https://social.biologianaweb.com.br/@adolfont
• https://t.me/elixirconferences
• https://github.com/adolfont/elixir_cop/blob/master/telegram.md
• Adolfo Neto: My three favorite resources for learning Elixir
• https://t.me/elixirconferences

Picks

• Steven  - PDF Reader that does text to speech
• Josh - GitHub Arctic Code Vault: Tech Tree
• Bruce - grox.io/language/liveview/course
• Bruce - Keynote: Build Good Software: Of Politics and Methods – Brian L. Troutwine
• Lars - BEAM Bloggers Webring
• Sophie - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein
• Adolfo - Telegram Group for Alchemists
• Adolfo  - Education Working Group of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
• Adolfo  - Elixir Resources in Portuguese

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AJ Foster is a developer at Pluralsight. He talks about the course he made for Pluralsight about Elixir and then talks about how Elixir was brought into Pluralsight, both into their catalog of courses as well as into the tech stack for the company.

Links

• Elixir: The Big Picture
• Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19
• Elixir Diff
• Erlang - heart
• PRINCIPLES OF CHAOS ENGINEERING
• GitHub: AJ Foster ( aj-foster )
• Twitter: AJ Foster ( @Austin_J_Foster ) 

Picks

• AJ- GitHub | aj-foster/absinthe-socket-transport
• AJ- FIRST
• Allen- Keith Elder - Building A Highly Scalable Service that Survived A Super Bowl | Code BEAM SF 19
• Allen- Zero To Production In Rust
• Eric- Hardcore Zen
• Sascha- Erlang in Anger

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This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles.
They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them.


Links

• Erlang Term Storage (ETS)
• dets (stdlib) - (Erlang Documentation)
• JVM struggles and the BEAM

Picks

• Adi- How to split a router into multiple modules using Phoenix
• Adi- ElixirConf EU 2021 volunteer application form

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Dive into an enlightening conversation with Allen, Adi together and special guest Bruce Tate as he shares his passion for teaching underrepresented communities in tech. In this episode, Bruce discusses the transformative power of mentorship through Alexa Chat, a weekly volunteer-driven session aimed at fostering inclusivity and learning among aspiring coders. Discover how creating a safe space can lead to profound personal and professional growth.

Key takeaways from this episode:
- The importance of learning by doing: Encouraging new programmers to code actively.
- Building community support: Creating a vulnerable yet respectful environment where mistakes are welcomed.
- Inspiring success stories: Real-life examples of individuals thriving through mentorship.

Join them for an inspiring discussion that highlights the impact of inclusive education in technology.


Socials

• LinkedIn: Bruce Tate

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