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Beam RadioEpisode 58: ElixirConf 2023 BTS #2Tune in to hear behind the scenes #ElixirConf2023 interviews with:
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Savannah Manning
Joshua Plique
Tyler Young
Wojtek Mach
Sean Moriarity
Miki Rezentes
Kate Rezentes
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Thinking Elixir Podcast74: New to Elixir and Women in Tech with Miki and Kate RezentesWe talk with mother/daughter team Miki and Kate Rezentes about their experiences learning and working with Elixir and as women in the tech industry. Miki presented “Greasing the Wheel of Adoption” at ElixirConf. Her focus was on the people aspect of adoption and we had a great time going deeper on that topic here. Kate, who is just starting her career as a developer, talks about ways we can share tech with the young people around us. We get their ideas and suggestions for ways to support women in tech, young people learning tech, and more!
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We open our chat with Randall by exploring his start in coding and how he discovered Elixir. He shares some of the teething problems that he had moving from Ruby to Elixir before we touch on how learning other languages expands your ability to both appreciate and code in languages that you’re already fluent in. Following this, Randall ex...2020-12-1053 min
Elixir WizardsSeason Four Wrap: Whose Design Is It Anyway? with Swadia, Windholtz, Rezentes, and KeathleyTo close off this season and conclude our deep dive into system and application architecture, today’s episode is a special panel discussion on a topic that has provoked a mix of answers that range from the controversial to the philosophical — “What does domain-driven design mean to you?” For the final word on this subject, we welcome back software developers Chris Keathley, Japa Swadia, Mark Windholtz, and Miki Rezentes. Our first hot take comes from Miki, who shares her thoughts about how domain-driven design developed because the tech industry undervalues communication. Following this, Mark and Japa discuss how domain-driven design g...2020-10-1559 min
Elixir WizardsMiki Rezentes on how it's APIs All the Way DownAccording to an ancient myth, the world rests on the back of a turtle. And what does that turtle stand on? Another turtle. It turns out that it’s turtles all the way down. Miki Rezentes, today’s guest, believes that all software rests on the back of APIs. Similar to the myth, it’s APIs all the way down. We open our conversation by discussing how homeschooling her children did more to prepare Miki for a software career than anything else she’s encountered. Miki shares highlights from her talk, ‘APIs All the Way Down’. This set up this episode...2020-09-0142 min