This is a repeat episode of Ruby Rogues 485 The Rogues dive into who are top 5% developers, what they're doing and how to recognize them. They start out discussing how mid-level developers can move up and how developers can grow in more ways that technical skills.

José Valim, the creator of Elixir, shares his story with the panel starting with why he built Elixir. The panel wonders why José did not just use Erlang. José discusses what he wanted from Elixir and what problems he wanted to solve. The panel discusses concurrency, Metaprogramming, ad hoc polymorphism, and run times. José talks about what it was like as elixir grew in popularity and maintaining Elixir.

Mani Vaya joins Charles Max Wood to walk him through the 6 pillars of success that lead to meeting your goals.

We talk with Meryl Dakin, an Elixir engineer at Frame.io, about why they rebuilt their legacy application in Elixir, why they brought in GraphQL and what it’s like to work with the Absinthe Elixir library for GraphQL. We wrap up the episode with a very special Tarot reading using the deck that Meryl gave Sophie last Christmas.

Adam Mokan joins the Mix to discuss crawling the web with Elixir. He starts out by explaining he rather unconventional path to Elixir. At ElixirConf he spoke about crawling the web. He admits that his talk was more about architecture of a highly parallelized app with a restrictive SLA. He talks about managing web crawls and not knowing what your clients will send in.

We talk with Engineering Manager and Elixirist Catalina Astengo about using gRPC, Protobuf and Elixir to standardize communication between microservices, why and when to reach for gRPC and why Elixir lends itself so well to this pattern of communication.

We discuss how to learn and love Elixir and other functional languages, the importance of people and community in learning, the perfect autumnal cocktail and so much more with Randall Thomas—drinker, hacker and bon vivant!

Mani provides us with strategies and tactics to get Deep Work time and how to get our minds into that focused state for hours at a time. He has read hundreds of books that have taught him the secrets to getting more done by getting into this state.

This guest barely needs an introduction and we roll quickly forward from his one-punch knockout book Elixir in Action and onward. Saša makes the panel consider what we could and maybe should be doing with Elixir in the future. We talk about his talks, his libraries and his overall vision for what the future could and possibly should hold. Rather than reading this, you should be listening because the erlangelist is talking and it serves us all to pay attention.

In this episode of Elixir Mix, Feather Knee joins us to discuss her recent ElixirConf2020 talk on LiveView components, what its like learning LiveView with a React background and where LiveView really shines as a framework. We also chat about fall foliage, pumpkin recipes and ghosts, since it’s that time of year.

In this episode of ElixirMix, we talk with Lukas Larsson and John Högberg about the JIT compiler that will be landing in OTP 24, the performance implications that come along with it and the inside scoop on the Erlang core team.

In this episode of Elixir Mix, we are joined by inimitable Luke Imhoff who takes us on a wild journey through his background from low-level, to high-level and straight back into compiler land as we work our way towards talking about Lumen. And what a conversation that is. WebAssembly, working group politics, sneaking binaries into the enterprise and so much more. The big take-away is that the Lumen project is a very cool effort to give us more options for running Erlang, Elixir and friends that are suitable for entirely different use-cases. Also, clearly, that the Lumen team is carrying the torch for all functional languages in the WASM Working Group. If you are curious about Lumen or WebAssembly this one is for you.

Connor Rigby of Nerves fame joins our motley crew to talk about the new Blue Heron library that brings Bluetooth Low-Energy/BLE to Nerves. He goes deep, he goes wide. We learn a lot. And beyond that we cover the Spawnfest darling we know as Bakeware that creates single static binaries from Elixir projects and some Flutter. We almost fall into car talk but mostly steer clear. This is a wild one!

In this episode of Elixir Mix, our panel shares their thoughts on this year’s fully remote ElixirConf, from the Purple Carpet to the remote workshops to an excellent slate of great talks!

In this episode of Elixir Mix, the hosts follow up with Phil Toland on his journey from small startup to PepsiCo Ecommerce and cover lots of important topics along the way. Such as Kubernetes, deleting mysterious S3 buckets, lots of assorted Machine Learning and lots of hype about Elixir in general. Steven fires shots at Go. Bruce wants to talk about Julia. Lars still only really cares about Lumen. And Alex wants that sweet, sweet secret ML sauce.