Ivan Rublev is the author of the open source library, Domo, which provides type validations for Elixir applications. He discusses the types of validations it does and the tradeoffs you get when you can validate the structure of your structs.

Charles Max Wood takes the lead this week. He and Adi Iyengar discuss what Top End Devs are and what people should be doing to become Top End Devs. They start out discussing the default trajectory of a developer's career and then talk about how to get boosts off that line and into higher levels of achievement and fulfillment.

Louis Pilfold is the creator of the Gleam programming language. He explains what Gleam is and tells us where it came from. He then dives into why he wrote a statically typed language for the BEAM, the challenges involved, and its strengths for programming and tooling.

This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles. They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them.This week, the panel gets in and talks about Elixir is not just a specialty language for high concurrency applications with specific performance profiles. They dive into how Elixir can be used in a variety of cases and how it is set up as a language that allows you to solve the breadth of issues that other popular languages solve without being specialized to them.

The panel talks about how to manage state in Elixir applications. Sometimes you can get away with internal structures like gen servers and ETS and other times you have to reach to external systems like redis, mongodb, or postgreSQL. This episode will walk you through the ins and outs of managing state and what your options are and what the tradeoffs are between those options.

Luca Peppe built a health check and heartbeat system for the systems at work in Elixir. While the implementation uses many basic features from Elixir and Phoenix, the way that it underscores the fundamentals of Elixir is helpful for both the experienced and the new Elixir developer.

This week, we talk with Yiming Chen about how drilled into the root cause of some slow requests and how it turned out to be an issue with Elixir's own Regex module. We talk about how they monitor performance at Tubi, what they tried to solve the issue, and how they ssh'ed into production to run more detailed performance monitoring.

The panel discusses their development setups, their journeys getting them to where they are now, and the tools they use while they're developing software in Elixir and with Phoenix.

Everett Griffiths is the author of the DotEnvy library. He wrote the library to help manage environment variables across multiple applications and environments. He and the Elixir Mix panel dive into how DotEnvy works and in the ins and outs of managing environment variables securely from one application to another and from one environment to another. Through development and deployment this is often an overlooked step in keeping things secure while also keeping them simple.

The Elixir Mix Panel discussions the history of Elixir and the high points and big changes in the language and ecosystem. They go into the big changes that brought about growth in the ecosystem, ease of use in the language, better features, and much more.

Chuck and Allen dive into how and where to deploy Elixir and Phoenix applications. They talk through the mostly done for you solutions like Gigalixir and Heroku down to deploying by script to server or VPS hosting like DigitalOcean all the way to building containers and deploying to Kubernetes setups like AWS or DigitalOcean's cloud setup. There are a lot of great options and many of them depend on how much of the work you want to do and how much learning curve you want to take on. Allen and Chuck discuss the tradeoffs of each choice in those regards.

Chuck dives into the 3 essentials for getting the next successful outcome you want in your career. Whether that's something simple like a raise or something more complex like going freelance, you can achieve it by working on 3 main areas.

Kelsey Leftwich explains how Phoenix LiveView made it possible to build a simple drag and drop component without the need for a large front-end framework like React and clunky back-end API setup to make it work.

Chuck explains what he taught Nathan last week when we asked how to get hired at a FANG (Facebook Apple/Amazon Netflix Google) company. Essentially, it boils down to how to build the skills and knowledge needed to pass the interview. How to build the relationships to get into the door and have the interviewer want you to succeed. And how to build the reputation that has the company wanting you regardless of the outcome.

Szymon Soppa joins the mix to talk about composing queries for your Ecto models in Phoenix. He talks about how Ecto typically thinks about its queries and how you can build your own queries and dives deep with Adi on how you can arrange the queries to get the characteristics in both data and performance that you're looking for from your database.