125: Elixir at the Royal Bank of Canada

While hearing how Elixir is being used in the Royal Bank of Canada's Capital Markets, we learned a lot of extra things we didn't expect! Thanos Vassilakis, head of R&D in the CM group, explained how middle managers talk about “scaling” to mean hiring staff with the goal of using all of their budgets. Not the kind of scaling we typically think about! Thanos identified the biggest problem limiting Elixir's adoption at large financial institutions and it wasn't what we expected. He also shared stories of how LiveView greatly out performed React when rendering hundreds of live updating financial charts and, after experimenting with it, the React devs fully adopted LiveView! Lots of great insights and stories in this one! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/125 Elixir Community News https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-released – Phoenix 1.7.0-rc.0 released! https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1589721565692067840 – Chris McCord's Twitter announcement https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/v1.7.0-rc.0/CHANGELOG.md – Phoenix 1.7.0-rc.0 changelog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-rqBLjr5Eo – Chris McCord's keynote https://twitter.com/clarkware/status/1587894081572569089 – Mike Clark shows how params can be added in embedded in Sigil P routes https://hex.pm/packages/heroicons – Heroicons https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit – Alternative webservers like Bandit become possible https://twitter.com/bernheisel/status/1589803460320710656 – David's diff of for going to new Phoenix 1.7 https://utils.zest.dev/gendiff – David's free Diff Generator tool for Phoenix projects https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1589738157196869634 – Jose Valim's summation of new Phoenix release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOeONt6Hkf8&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbmaPrkGCAzFMC_FYZUkmSr&index=15 – New batch of ElixirConf 2022 videos were released Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://www.rbccm.com/en/ https://shapeshift.com/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_(programming_language) https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capitalmarkets.asp https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/financialrisk.asp https://couchdb.apache.org/ https://www.ericsson.com/en https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E15261_01/tuxedo/docs11gr1/tech_articles/CORBA.html https://www.amazon.com/Programming-Erlang-Concurrent-Pragmatic-Programmers/dp/193778553X https://www.postgresql.org/ https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe https://github.com/lasp-lang/partisan https://github.com/devinus/poolboy https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System https://openwhisk.apache.org/ https://www.drools.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rete_algorithm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL https://sqlite.org/src4/doc/trunk/www/bt.wiki https://www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-memory-structure/ https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_memory.html https://github.com/membraneframework/shmex https://semiengineering.com/the-rise-of-smartnics/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/ethernet-adapters/ https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/networking/products/data-processing-unit/hpc/ https://github.com/zeroc-ice/ice https://github.com/afiniate/seresye Guest Information https://twitter.com/thanos_tweets – on Twitter [[email protected]]([email protected]) – Email https://www.rbccm.com/en/ – Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets https://elixirforum.com/u/thanos/summary – Thanos on Elixir Forum 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!