177: Thinking Elixir News

This week's news highlights Discord's deep-dive into how they've scaled their servers to support millions of concurrent users, leveraging Elixir's power. We cover how the Oban notifier has evolved to include Phoenix.PubSub and Redis integration, allowing more flexibility for your job processing needs. LiveView Native's tutorial experience looks promising to make mobile development smoother and more intuitive. Plus, we cover the Livebook PR merge upgrading to the Bandit library and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/177 Elixir Community News https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-with-a-million-plus-online-users-in-a-single-server – Discord blog post detailing the scaling of individual Discord servers and the technical challenges involved. https://github.com/discord/manifold – GitHub link to Discord's opensource Elixir library "Manifold" used for batch message passing between nodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HP86Svk4hzI – Chris Grainger discusses using Elixir + Phoenix + Nx in production with machine learning on the BEAM. https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/2316 – A Livebook PR titled "Upgrade to bandit" merged by José Valim, signifying an endorsement for the Bandit library. https://twitter.com/cvkmohan/status/1719489327925694682 – Discussion on Twitter about using Bandit as an upgrade for a Phoenix app. https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff/phx_new/19CBA027FA97E2873CC24093F6AC1820 – A flag added to elixirstream.dev for diffing generated output, introduced in Phoenix 1.7.8. https://github.com/sorentwo/oban_notifiers_phoenix – Release of a new Oban notifier powered by Phoenix.PubSub, compatible with OTP and now able to use Redis. https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1720179762088272080 – Tease of the upcoming LiveView Native v0.2 and its tutorial experience using Livebook. https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/174 – Previous interview about DockYard's BeaconCMS https://twitter.com/bcardarella/status/1721172482298663214 – Twitter post discussing the 'Variants' feature for A/B/C/D/etc. page variant testing in BeaconCMS. https://twitter.com/NervesMeetup/status/1721389396417728782 – Announcement tweet for the next Nerves embedded systems meetup. https://www.meetup.com/nerves/events/290189609/ – Meetup link for the Nerves embedded systems event featuring a walkthrough by Alex McLain. Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] 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!