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Thinking Elixir Podcast183: Thinking Elixir NewsWe kick off the new year diving into the freshly released Elixir 1.16.0 with new features like enhanced documentation and improved error reporting. We explore the burgeoning Elixir Machine Learning ecosystem, and discuss the innovative use of Llama.cpp with Elixir for machine learning on less powerful hardware. We also touch on the release of Benchee 1.3.0, which focuses on improving memory usage in benchmarks, and introduce Magma AI Prompt IDE, a handy tool for Elixir developers looking to streamline their project knowledge and documentation process. Plus, we unveil Adobe's Elixir Styler for smarter code formatting, and share insights on the...2024-01-0218 minThinking Elixir Podcast181: FLAME with Chris McCordIn this week's episode, we ignite the exciting world of Elixir with Chris McCord's announcement of FLAME, showcasing a revolutionary approach to serverless with the Phoenix framework. Chris joins us to unravel the inspiration behind FLAME - Fleeting Lambda Application for Modular Execution and its promise to streamline the developer experience, significantly simplifying elastic compute. We discuss why this isn't just another job queue solution and explore how it effortlessly scales. We cover how other backends can be implemented and learn there's even a Kubernetes option! The FLAME pattern can be implemented in other languages and frameworks too. To...2023-12-191h 11
Elixir WizardsChris McCord and Jason Stiebs on the Future of PhoenixPhoenix core team members Chris McCord and Jason Stiebs join Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford the growth of Phoenix and LiveView, the latest updates, and what they're excited to see in the future. They express excitement for the possibilities of machine learning, AI, and distributed systems and how these emerging technologies will enhance the user experience of Elixir and LiveView applications in the next decade.
Key Topics Discussed in this Episode:
How community contributions and feedback help improve Phoenix LiveView
The addition of function components, declarative assigns, HEEx, and streams
Why Ecto changesets should...2023-06-0158 minThinking Elixir Podcast152: Rust and Elixir Play Great TogetherRust is a popular lower level language and the community has created a number of libraries to solve different problems. We talk with Jason Stiebs, a Phoenix Core Team member, about how Elixir and Rust can play well together. Jason wrote an article about how he leveraged an image processing library available in Rust by using the Elixir Rustler package. We talk about how Rustler works through NIFs, and we learn how easy using Rustler has become. It's great to understand that we have a powerful escape hatch like Rustler for those times we need it. We also get...2023-05-2350 minThinking Elixir Podcast146: Thinking Elixir NewsNews includes Elixir 1.14.4 release and what's in it, the EEF's election is re-run and why, a new ML library Scholar was released and what it's for, a Sobelow update, a post about building your own static site generator with Phoenix, a post creating a Slack-like app with LiveView and streams, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/146
Elixir Community News
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.14.4 – Elixir 1.14.4 released
https://erlef.org/blog/eef/election-2023-revote – EEF board election re-vote to correct a procedural issue.
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1641137386124988418 – José V...2023-04-1107 min
Elixir WizardsJason Stiebs on LiveView at RokkinCatToday we welcome Jason Stiebs to the podcast to talk about all things LiveView and how he was originally wrong about LiveView in the beginning. Jason is the founder at Rokkincat, and a core contributor to Phoenix. Jason loves finding solutions to complex problems and mentoring young engineers. Tune in today to learn more about LiveView from today’s special guest, Jason Stiebs!
Key Points From This Episode:
A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Jason Stiebs
A summary of Jason’s talk at ElixirConf on why he initially was wrong...2022-10-2749 min