191: Operational Elixir: What's Supporting the Apps at Felt.com and SleepEasy.app?

Thinking Elixir Podcast

In this special episode, we kick off a brand-new series that dives into the world of Elixir—but with a twist. We're exploring the systems surrounding the language and what it takes to support and run a company or team that uses Elixir. Join us as we engage in insightful conversations with various industry voices, starting with Tyler Young, about the practical systems and solutions used by businesses like Felt.com and SleepEasy.app. This series promises to be an enlightening journey for anyone curious about the behind-the-scenes workings of an Elixir-based product. Tune in to hear the unique challenges and successes experienced by others in the field and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/191

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/8111 – Erlang's potential new OTP json module is showing significant performance improvements in recent benchmarks.
• https://twitter.com/michalmuskala/status/1759932700624912832 – Michał Muskała shares insights online about future Elixir idiomatic wrapper around the new OTP json module.
• https://www.erlang.org/news/167 – OTP 27-RC1 was released with new features like the maybe expression and Triple-Quoted Strings.
• https://github.com/erlang/otp/ – Official repository for Erlang/OTP where the 27-RC1 release can be found.
• https://twitter.com/_uwu_cocoa/status/1758878453309505958 – Tweet mentioning that Erlang 27.0-rc1 runs natively on ARM64 Windows.
• https://fly.io/blog/tigris-public-beta/ – Fly.io announces a new globally distributed object storage solution that supports the S3 API.
• https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc – New WebRTC library for Elixir called ex_webrtc is introduced.
• https://blog.swmansion.com/introducing-elixir-webrtc-a37ece4bfca1 – Blog post introducing ex_webrtc, detailing the motivation and development of the new WebRTC library for Elixir.
• https://membrane.stream/ – Membrane Framework site; although ex_webrtc was created due to certain challenges with Membrane, Membrane is noted for its pipeline model.
• https://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/ – The W3C WebRTC specification, which ex_webrtc implements in Elixir, is more JS focused.
• The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation recently celebrated their 5 year anniversary, highlighting the community's achievements.
• https://github.com/gleam-lang/gleam/releases/tag/v1.0.0-rc2 – Release of Gleam v1.0.0-rc2 which includes a bug fix for the compiler.
• Announcement about ElixirConf US, with a call for training classes and upcoming call for talks.

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Discussion Resources

• https://felt.com/
• https://sleepeasy.app/
• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1730253716073148470 – Tyler shared on X when he bought his physical hardware
• https://sentry.io/for/elixir/
• https://www.appsignal.com/elixir
• https://felt.com/blog/startup-and-shutdown-for-phoenix-applications
• https://retool.com
• https://www.heap.io/

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung – on Twitter
• https://github.com/s3cur3 – on Github
• https://fosstodon.org/@tylerayoung – on Fediverse
• https://tylerayoung.com/ – Blog

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