Elixir Talk

We hang out with José Valim, creator of Elixir, and discuss new features in Elixir 1.6, tips to build better applications, and (of course) Star Trek.

Crevalle (http://crevalle.io) Is the Elixir ecosystem "mature" enough for production apps? (https://medium.com/@cameronp/is-the-elixir-ecosystem-mature-enough-for-production-apps-79fbf9f2df31) Supervisor Documentation (https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Supervisor.html) The Zen of Erlang (https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html) Visualization of Elixir Supervision Tree Strategies (https://medium.com/elixirlabs/visualisation-of-elixir-supervision-tree-strategies-4d4cb8123138) KLEO (https://kleo.crevalle.io)

How should you think about storing state in your Elixir apps? Should you use a traditional external datastore? Or one of the built-in constructs: GenServers, ETS, DETS, or mnesia?

When should you use Umbrella Apps?

== Show Notes == - EMPEX (http://empex.co/) - Crevalle (http://crevalle.io/) - Frame.io (https://frame.io) - Distillery (https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery) - Bottling Elixir with Docker (https://paullamb.exposed/blog/2017/1/11/bottling-elixir-with-docker-part-1) - CircleCI (https://circleci.com/) - edeliver (https://github.com/edeliver/edeliver) - Runtime Configuration (https://github.com/bitwalker/distillery/blob/master/docs/Runtime%20Configuration.md) - Mix Docker (https://github.com/Recruitee/mix_docker) - Desmond’s Deploy Script (https://gist.github.com/desmondmonster/2384ac4464e9a857f8b9d44d0d906df9) - Real World Elixir Deployment - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H686MDn4Lo8) - The Future of Deployment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fuUtQFinZk) - Gigalixir (https://www.gigalixir.com/) - Deploying Phoenix on Heroku (https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/heroku.html) - LibCluster (https://github.com/bitwalker/libcluster) - Desmond on Twitter (http://twitter.com/desmondmonster) - Chris on Twitter (http://twitter.com/cjbell_) Ask us a Question at https://github.com/elixirtalk/elixirtalk Follow us on Twitter! @elixirtalk