142: Orion for Distributed Tracing in Production

Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run dynamic distributed tracing in your app on production! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the performance and running multiple traces simultaneously. We talk with Thomas to learn more about the history, the inspirations, how it works, why it's safe to run in production, how to get performance insights, and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/142 Elixir Community News https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#171-2023-03-02 – Phoenix 1.7.1 released with enhancement to phx.new https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/EEEFA23CF29B825D3F84B0E3B3978F62 – Diff for the sizable project changes as hero_icons are added https://groups.google.com/g/elixir-lang-core/c/cocMcghahs4/m/DdYRNfuYAwAJ – Multi-letter uppercase sigils being added to Elixir https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/12448 – Expanded sigil support already merged in https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1630558483102801922 – German Velasco's collection of short videos about Phoenix 1.7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvQQYdm3-EoiRuwcPQds_msNxiKIvgen8 – YouTube playlist of the short videos https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1631627732261154816 – Tip from German on using phx-mounted binding to do initial animations with JS transitions https://fullstackphoenix.com/tutorials/mix-task-automatic-convert-to-verified-routes – A mix task was created to help projects migrate to verified routes by the people at Fullstack Phoenix. https://gist.github.com/andreaseriksson/e454b9244a734310d4ab74d8595f98cd – Gist for mix task convert_to_verified_routes.ex https://twitter.com/basilenouvellet/status/1628702926318313473 – Quick bash script to launch a LiveBook connected to your Fly instance https://flowbite.com/docs/getting-started/phoenix/ – Flowbite has TailwindCSS styled components and just added a “getting started with Phoenix” guide. https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1632956603249950722 – All LiveView Native SwiftUI views are complete. On to Modifiers https://github.com/liveviewnative/liveview-client-swiftui/issues/42 – Github checklist of SwiftUI views https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-26.0-rc1 – OTP 26 RC 1 bring improvements https://erlangforums.com/t/how-is-the-new-dialyzer-incremental-mode-different/2367 – Dialyzer gets an --incremental https://gleam.run/news/v0.27-hello-panic-goodbye-try/ – Gleam v0.27 released https://codebeamstockholm.com/#register – CodeBEAM Lite Stockholm on Fri, 12 May 202 - one day conference and early bird tickets are on sale now Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://github.com/LivewareProblems/Orion https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1624876674499198976 https://github.com/spawnfest/Orion – Started as a 2021 Spawnfest entry that didn't complete https://twitter.com/Di4naO/status/1628067971007479811 – Difference from FlameOn Twitter discussion https://twitter.com/lostkobrakai/status/1628069107269570560 – Comment about immutable filesystems https://www.erlang.org/doc/efficiency_guide/profiling.html https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/eprof.html https://www.erlang.org/doc/man/fprof.html https://github.com/DockYard/flame_on https://github.com/strace/strace https://strace.io/ https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/erts/tracing https://github.com/ferd/recon/ https://hex.pm/packages/ex2ms https://github.com/ericmj/ex2ms https://hexdocs.pm/matcha/Matcha.html https://hex.pm/packages/xprof https://stackoverflow.blog/2022/12/26/why-the-number-input-is-the-worst-input/ https://ebpf.io/ https://userinyerface.com/ https://www.boredpanda.com/funny-worst-input-fields/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/di4naO – on Twitter https://github.com/DianaOlympos/ – on Github https://hachyderm.io/@Di4na – on Fediverse https://www.softwaremaxims.com/ – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Message the show on Fediverse - @[email protected] Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid Mark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[email protected] David Bernheisel - @bernheisel David Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[email protected] Cade Ward - @cadebward Cade Ward on Fediverse - @[email protected] Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!