EMx 040: Elixir Outlaws and Adopting Elixir with Chris Keathley

Sponsors Sentry use the code “devchat” for $100 creditTriplebyteCacheFly Panel Josh AdamsMark EricksenCharles Max Wood Joined by special guest: Chris Keathley Episode Summary In this episode of Elixir Mix, Chris Keathley introduces himself briefly and starts with talking about his work at Bleacher Report - a company specializing in sports culture - with respect to handling web traffic during major sports events and the implications of moving from Rails to Elixir as a backend system. He briefly touches on scaling issues, performance and the services they are running on their website. He then describes his Elixir journey until now and certain new areas he is working with, such as property based testing and distributed systems. He talks about maintaining the Wallaby library which is developed by him, mentions existing and upcoming exciting things in Elixir, and explains a few features of the Distillery and Vapor libraries. He also gives advice to people that are starting to work with Elixir on what must be learnt and more, and discusses certain projects and topics he wants to pursue and build knowledge in, in the near future. Links Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix: Rethink the Modern Web AppLance HalvorsenBleacher ReportWallabyDistilleryVaporElixir OutlawsLonestar ElixirConf – Chris KeathleyElixirConf EUBenefits of Elixir: How Elixir helped Bleacher Report handle 8x more traffic Picks Josh Adams: Axe - toolGraphQL – Zero to Awesome Mark Ericksen: Bash command “cd -” to go back to the last working directory Charles Max Wood: ZapierCanon EOS M6 CameraRode Microphone Chris Keathley: