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Thinking Elixir Podcast230: Hot k8s Takes and Self-HostingNews includes episodes now available on YouTube, Parker Selbert's experience transitioning an app from the cloud to self-hosted, Gleam v1.6.0 release with context-aware features, José Valim's hot-take on Kubernetes vs. Elixir, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/230 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/@brainlid – Our episodes are also being published to YouTube! https://peterullrich.com/a-bluesky-starter-guide-for-elixir-devs – Peter Ullrich provides a blog post explaining how to move to Bluesky with Elixir and BEAM related starter packs. https://bsky.app/starter-pack/peterullrich.com/3l7d3wn6mdd2n – Peter Ullrich’s starter B...2024-11-2636 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast227: Oban Web Goes Open Source?News includes Oban Web going open source, making it more accessible for startups, a new community resource featuring over 80 Phoenix LiveView components, interesting insights from a frontend technology survey highlighting Phoenix's potential, the introduction of Klife, a high-performance Elixir + Kafka client, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/227 Elixir Community News https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mKp30PNM_Q4 – Parker Selbert announced that the Oban Web dashboard will be open sourced. https://github.com/rails/solid_queue/ – The Rails community is working on a database-backed job queue called "Solid Queue". Mark shar...2024-11-0529 min

Elixir MentorParker & Shannon Selbert on ObanIn this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, the go-to source for All Things Elixir, Parker and Shannon Selbert, the creators of Oban, join me to discuss their groundbreaking work. We explore the journey of developing Oban, a powerful job processing system that has become essential for thousands of Elixir applications. The Selberts share their vision behind Oban's creation, emphasizing its core principles of reliability, consistency, and observability in background job processing. Our conversation covers how Oban achieves impressive performance and touches on its evolution from open-source beginnings to the advanced capabilities of Oban Pro...2024-10-261h 35

Thinking Elixir Podcast223: A Boost for Nx, Lib Updates, and Passion ProjectsNews includes José Valim and Chris McCord's collaboration on AI GPU clusters with Fly.io, Nx being selected for Mozilla's Builders Accelerator with a $100,000 award, Parker Selbert's highlights on PostgreSQL 17's improvements for the Oban project, a major update to the Cachex library, and an extension of the call for talks deadline for Alchemy Conf 2025, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/223 Elixir Community News https://fly.io/blog/ai-gpu-clusters-from-your-laptop-livebook/ – José Valim and Chris McCord's blog post on AI GPU clusters. https://x.com/josevalim/status/1838632848955150811 – José Valim shares a post about u...2024-10-0822 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast217: One Language Server to Rule Them AllNews includes the announcement of an official Elixir Language Server team, the release of Oban v2.18.1 featuring automatic transaction retries with backoff, a new macro-inspired video from German Velasco, the upcoming "Elixir Patterns" book by Alex Koutmos and Hugo Baraúna, the forthcoming CodeBEAM Lite conference in NYC, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/217 Elixir Community News https://x.com/josevalim/status/1824121405996482977 – Announcement of the new official Elixir Language Server team. https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2024/08/15/welcome-elixir-language-server-team/ – Elixir blog post detailing the new Language Server team and plans. Team members include Jonat...2024-08-2719 min

Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software DevelopersParker Selbert and Shannon Selbert on Robust Job Processing in ElixirShannon Selbert, co-founder of Soren and developer of Oban, and Parker Selbert, creator of the Oban background job framework, chief architect at dscout, and co-founder of Soren, speak with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about robust job processing in Elixir. They explore the reliability, consistency, and observability in relation to job processing, to understand how Oban, Elixir, and PostgreSQL deliver them. The Selberts describe why Oban was created, its history, which parts of the Elixir ecosystem they use, and why this would not be possible without PostgreSQL and Elixir. They discuss the lessons learned in the 5 years s...2024-06-1259 min

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developersParker Selbert and Shannon Selbert on Robust Job Processing in ElixirShannon Selbert, co-founder of Soren and developer of Oban, and Parker Selbert, creator of the Oban background job framework, chief architect at dscout, and co-founder of Soren, speak with SE Radio host Gavin Henry about robust job processing in Elixir. They explore the reliability, consistency, and observability in relation to job processing, to understand how Oban, Elixir, and PostgreSQL deliver them. The Selberts describe why Oban was created, its history, which parts of the Elixir ecosystem they use, and why this would not be possible without PostgreSQL and Elixir. They discuss the lessons learned in the 5 years s...2024-06-1259 min

Formula AmericanaFORMULA AMERICANA 25Enzo Fiore – A Few StatesJESSE BOLTZ - Little Love Thing (Revised) [Remixed] [Live]Chuck Jeter - Never Give upRacyne Parker – Already LateFrankie Justin – Love Somebody (Reba McEntire Cover)Pat Broderick – ReminiscePat Broderick – Big Ole' WheelerJohn Santana – Falling out of love John Santana – Don't Let it Rain on my CountryStefan J. Selbert – Lend a HandMitchell Makoons – Changing ManAaron Goodvin – Written All Over ItManuel the Band x Crosev – LatelyTwo Paper...2024-03-2254 min

Changelog Master FeedThe Oban Pros (Changelog & Friends #35)Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years. Leave us a comment Changelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today! Sponsors: FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to co...2024-03-151h 36

The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceThe Oban Pros (Friends)Today you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to conf...2024-03-151h 36

Changelog & FriendsThe Oban ProsToday you get Sorentwo for the price of one! We are joined by Shannon & Parker Selbert, both halves of the mom-and-pop software shop behind Oban, the robust job processing library that’s been delivering our emails & processing our audio for years. Join the discussionChangelog++ members get a bonus 7 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join today!Sponsors:FireHydrant – The alerting and on-call tool designed for humans, not systems. Signals puts teams at the center, giving you ultimate control over rules, policies, and schedules. No need to conf...2024-03-151h 36

Thinking Elixir Podcast164: Thinking Elixir NewsNews roundup includes the ElixirConf schedule being published, Bumblebee gets streaming text support, Oban Web is getting a big update, Elixir for Cynical Curmudgeons blog post brings broader positive attention, and Elixir Nx being successfully used to follow along with high profile AI examples. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/164 Elixir Community News https://2023.elixirconf.com/schedule – ElixirConf US schedule is up. https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee/pull/232 – Merged PR on Bumblebee by Jonatan Kłosko adds support for streaming text generation results. https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1687123146787233792 – Sean Moriarity drew attenti...2023-08-1507 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast163: Job Queues using Oban with Parker SelbertIf you need background jobs or scheduled tasks in your Elixir project, you've probably already heard of Oban. We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator and maintainer of Oban, to learn more about the project and the additional paid features in Oban Web and Oban Pro. Parker explains the origins, why it's architected the way it is, and how the paid extensions work. We also get some insights into companies using Oban and the kind of scale people reach. Spoiler--100's of millions of jobs is a thing. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/163 2023-08-0855 min

Changelog InterviewsState of the "log" 2022Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary Shi...2022-12-231h 28

Changelog Master FeedState of the "log" 2022 (The Changelog #520)Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Discuss on Changelog News Changelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today! Featuring Adam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website Jerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn Notes and Links Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherC...2022-12-231h 28

The Changelog: Software Development, Open SourceState of the "log" 2022 (Interview)Our 5th annual year-end wrap-up episode! Sit back, relax, pour a glass of your favorite beverage and join us for listener voice mails, our favorite episodes, some must-listens, and of course the top 5 most listened to episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚 Join the discussionChangelog++ members support our work, get closer to the metal, and make the ads disappear. Join today!Featuring:Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XJerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, XShow Notes:Listener favs: Go Time #250: Mat’s GopherCon EU diary Shi...2022-12-231h 28

Thinking Elixir Podcast128: Speedy like a BanditThe Phoenix 1.7 announcement blog post mentioned the ability to swap out Cowboy for another webserver like Bandit. We talked with Mat Trudel to learn more about his pure-Elixir webserver and find out how it works with Phoenix. We learn Bandit can be up to 5x faster by narrowly focusing on turning a request into a Plug connection and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/128 Elixir Community News https://github.com/features/security/ – Github's Dependabot now supports private hex repositories. https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1595526317436452864 – Parker Selbert brought this to our atte...2022-12-061h 00

Thinking Elixir Podcast97: Avro and Elixir with Dave LuciaDave Lucia released version 2.0 of AvroEx, an Elixir library for working with Avro protocols and schemas. To understand Avro, we need an overview of the whole Kafka-centric flow! He gives us a taste of the Enterprise soup of JVM tools used for populating data lakes, all for the business benefit of data analysis and machine learning. We may work on Elixir systems that are tasked with hooking into this other Enterprise-y world and getting an overview of the pieces and awareness of the tools available can really help out! Dave also shares his goal of creating a new Markdown...2022-05-0348 min

Changelog Master FeedThe Oban Pro (Backstage #23)We’ve been using Parker Selbert’s Oban library for years and he even helped us hold it right by improving our open source implementation! So, Jerod invited him Backstage to discuss the library, how we’re using it, Parker’s plan to make it financially sustainable, his “freedom number” of Oban Pro subscribers, and a bunch of other random stuff along the way. Let’s go!2022-04-1959 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast57: Scaling Live Chat with Cade WardWe sat down with co-host Cade Ward to hear how he and his team tackled a problem of hosting live web chats with crowds of 120K+ users coming together for live events. On the show, we have talked with a couple guests with similar bursting high-load situations. Cade had been through it too so it was time to dig in and cover how this situation can be solved. We cover the different attempts and temporary solutions used and the final solution that has been working really well. In fact it works so well, during a recent event, the auto-scaling...2021-07-2757 min

Elixir WizardsThe Controlled Magic of Oban with Parker and Shannon SelbertWhile there is magic to be found in many frameworks, having too much going on under the hood without you being able to control it is not for everybody. Today we invite Parker and Shannon Selbert to speak about their dynamic partnership and the ‘controlled magic’ of their tool Oban. Together Parker and Shannon founded Soren, where they help clients with established web apps stabilize, scale, and ‘add schmancy features’. Their tool Oban is a persistent background job processor written in Elixir whose differentiating feature revolves around keeping jobs after they're processed. We dive right in with Parker and Shannon...2021-05-2050 min

Beam RadioEpisode 8: Alex Koutmos and Parker Selbert Discuss Obanhttps://github.com/sorentwo/oban https://getoban.pro https://speakerdeck.com/sorentwo/the-architecture-of-oban https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/sql-notify.html https://sidekiq.org We want to connect with you! Twitter: @BeamRadio1 Send us your questions via Twitter @BeamRadio1 #ProcessMailbox Keep up to date with our hosts on Twitter @_StevenNunez @akoutmos @knewter @lawik @RedRapids @sm_debenedetto Sponsored by @GroxioLearning 2021-04-2047 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast39: Mix Install and ExDocs for Erlang with Wojtek MachWojtek Mach returns and talks about the new Mix.install/2 feature coming in Elixir 1.12. We learn about some other features coming that will help script authors. We talk about OTP 24 and when we can expect 1.12 to be released, ExDocs support for Erlang libraries, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/39 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/elixirbookclub – New Elixir Book Club [Discord Elixir Book Club](Discord Elixir Book Club) – https://discord.gg/veN54bAmVa https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/commit/4d2be245c0707698df22e9f659120e3daaa82186 – PR that makes doctes...2021-03-1638 min

Thinking Elixir Podcast29: Running Jobs using Oban with Parker SelbertWe talk with Parker Selbert, the creator of the job processing library Oban. He shares the benefits of using Postgres as the data store over more common choices like Redis. Oban also offers a paid "pro" level and Parker explains how a paid feature set is provided for the OpenSource library. He helps us understand the differences between pro and free as well. We talk about how the BEAM's concurrency and processes enable powerful features in a job processing library that you won't easily find in alternatives. He also shares a glimpse of what's coming in the future for...2021-01-0547 min

Running in ProductionMonitor Oban Jobs in Real Time with Oban Web ProIn this episode of Running in Production, Parker Selbert talks about building the licensing site for his Oban project using Phoenix and Elixir. It’s been up and running since March 2019 on Heroku. Parker talks about using Live View for the demo page, how access control is handled with Hex’s private packages, a bunch of libraries he uses, hand rolling his Stripe implementation, building a custom admin with custom analytics and more. Topics Include 4:48 – Motivation for using Phoenix and Elixir to build the licensing server 7:36 – Processing millions of background jobs a day with PostgreS...2020-12-141h 01

Elixir MixEMx 079: Oban with Parker SelbertIn this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Parker Selbert. Parker lives in Chicago and runs a consultancy with his wife. He joins the panel to discuss a library that he wrote, Oban. Parker starts by explaining what Oban is and why he wrote it. Oban is a way to run reliable background jobs by persisting them in the database. Oban is akin to Sidekick, Parker explains, he wanted something similar to Sidekick for Elixir. He made a few improvements including moving it to Postgres from Redis. He shares the common problems found using Redis and how easy Postgres...2019-11-2642 min