124: Caching Things Anywhere with Nebulex

We wanted to go deeper on the caching library Nebulex, so we visited with the creator, Carlos Bolaños, to learn what prompted its creation. Nebulex takes a couple unique approaches to things. It supports a decorator pattern to indicate that a function should be cached without having to write the boilerplate code for reading and writing to the cache. Nebulex was inspired by Ecto, in that it supports multiple adapters to different backends like Redis, Cachex and even Horde! It also supports multiple caching strategies. It's an interesting project that aims to solve common caching challenges in new ways and we enjoyed learning more about it. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/124 Elixir Community News https://hex.pm/blog/hex-v2.0-released-with-new-version-solver – Hex 2.0 released with a new version solver https://twitter.com/emjii/status/1587116679724765184 https://nex3.medium.com/pubgrub-2fb6470504f – Based on the algorithm PubGrub used by Dart's packager at https://pub.dev https://twitter.com/benoitc/status/1584699685822164995 – erlang-certifi 2.10.0, updated SSL Certificates bundle https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1585290898497224712 – Broadway update has new version of the Google Cloud PubSub adapter https://twitter.com/joladev/status/1585302755085717504 https://elixir-broadway.org/ https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1585733673256906752 – VegaLite, the graphing library used in Livebook, was updated to add support for binning, scaling, and different color schemes. https://twitter.com/akoutmos/status/1586566107447656449 – Alex Koutmos is adding a file upload SmartCell for Livebook and shared a preview of it online. https://twitter.com/davydog187/status/1584967478991388674 – Dave Lucia got TimescaleDB working in Livebook https://github.com/timescale https://twitter.com/sean_moriarity/status/1571983702413959175 – Sean Moriarity wrote 15 Livebook guides which go deeper into some of Axon's APIs. https://elixir-nx.github.io/axon/Axon.html https://fly.io/phoenix-files/shut-down-idle-phoenix-app/ – Chris McCord wrote a blog post about how a Phoenix app can shut itself down when idle. https://newrelic.com/blog/how-to-relic/memory-spikes-erlang – Article about using Observer to debug memory bugs by Matt Baker https://open.spotify.com/episode/0yMdXbB2MVmIb8MN8crEgV – Jose Valim was the guest on the "Software Unscripted" podcast to talk about introducing static types to Elixir. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q49vsCjpWGs&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbmaPrkGCAzFMC_FYZUkmSr – A batch of ElixirConf 2022 videos were released https://elixirconf.uy/ – ElixirConf UY - Uruguay - In-person and virtual on Nov 12th Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://github.com/cabol/nebulex https://www.oracle.com/java/coherence/ https://github.com/duomark/epocxy https://github.com/derekkraan/horde https://github.com/whitfin/cachex https://github.com/arjan/decorator https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/mnesia.html https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html There are only two hard things in Computer Science - cache invalidation and naming things. -Phil Karlton Guest Information https://twitter.com/CAndresBolanos – on Twitter https://github.com/cabol/ – on Github http://cabol.github.io/ – Blog https://medium.com/@cabol – Medium Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!