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51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Jun 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We talk with Alex Loukissas about using Phoenix sockets to provide live auction systems. We comment on the situation of flash-mob-like users coming to a system and needing to handle high traffic volumes for shorter durations. We talk about how the Horde library helps solve fun distributed clustering problems, we cover observability tools, how and why companies should support open source development through sponsorships and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1) – Elixir 1.12.1 released. Small set of bug fixes.
- https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir (https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir) – New tree-sitter Elixir parser. Used in Atom, Neovim and Emacs
- https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/ (https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/)
- https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter (https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter)
- https://github.com/nvim-treesitter (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter)
- https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/ (https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/) – Mark's Fly.io blog post on using Livebook as a project documentation tool
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367) – Jose Valim teases new Livebook feature with this graphic
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples) – Wojtek Mach created a repo showing example usages of Mix.install.
- https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109 (https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109) – Support for "curl url | sh" style scripts using Elixir
- https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878 (https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878) – Stack Overflow survey is out and both Erlang/Elixir are on the menu.
- https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/ (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/)
- https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM (https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM)
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
Discussion Resources
- http://whatnot.com (http://whatnot.com)
- https://www.splunk.com/ (https://www.splunk.com/)
- https://reactnative.dev/ (https://reactnative.dev/)
- https://kotlinlang.org/ (https://kotlinlang.org/)
- https://swift.org/ (https://swift.org/)
- https://goshippo.com/ (https://goshippo.com/)
- https://github.com/derekkraan/horde (https://github.com/derekkraan/horde)
- https://fly.io/ (https://fly.io/)
- https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/ (https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/)
- https://newrelic.com/ (https://newrelic.com/)
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/ (https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/)
- https://www.honeycomb.io/ (https://www.honeycomb.io/)
- https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/ (https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/aloukissas (https://twitter.com/aloukissas) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/aloukissas (https://github.com/aloukissas) – on Github
- https://alexloukissas.com (https://alexloukissas.com) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitt
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51)
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1) – Elixir 1.12.1 released. Small set of bug fixes.
- https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir (https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir) – New tree-sitter Elixir parser. Used in Atom, Neovim and Emacs
- https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/ (https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/)
- https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter (https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter)
- https://github.com/nvim-treesitter (https://github.com/nvim-treesitter)
- https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/ (https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/) – Mark's Fly.io blog post on using Livebook as a project documentation tool
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367) – Jose Valim teases new Livebook feature with this graphic
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mixinstallexamples (https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples) – Wojtek Mach created a repo showing example usages of Mix.install.
- https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109 (https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109) – Support for "curl url | sh" style scripts using Elixir
- https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878 (https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878) – Stack Overflow survey is out and both Erlang/Elixir are on the menu.
- https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/ (https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/)
- https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM (https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM)
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
Discussion Resources
- http://whatnot.com (http://whatnot.com)
- https://www.splunk.com/ (https://www.splunk.com/)
- https://reactnative.dev/ (https://reactnative.dev/)
- https://kotlinlang.org/ (https://kotlinlang.org/)
- https://swift.org/ (https://swift.org/)
- https://goshippo.com/ (https://goshippo.com/)
- https://github.com/derekkraan/horde (https://github.com/derekkraan/horde)
- https://fly.io/ (https://fly.io/)
- https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/ (https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/)
- https://newrelic.com/ (https://newrelic.com/)
- https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/ (https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/)
- https://www.honeycomb.io/ (https://www.honeycomb.io/)
- https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/ (https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/aloukissas (https://twitter.com/aloukissas) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/aloukissas (https://github.com/aloukissas) – on Github
- https://alexloukissas.com (https://alexloukissas.com) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com (mailto:show@thinkingelixir.com)
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitt
Released:
Jun 8, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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