32: Circuit Breaker and Elixir Patterns with Allan MacGregor

We talk with Allan MacGregor about implementing the Circuit Breaker pattern in Elixir and compare that to just using a job library. We get into a fun discussion about design patterns in Elixir and designing for failure. Allan is creating a project called Site Guardian using the PETAL stack and shares his experiences with it and much more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/32 Elixir Community News https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/01/13/orchestrating-computer-vision-with-elixir/ – New Elixir case study features the company V7 where they use Elixir for orchestrating computer vision. https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/improving-testing-and-continuous-integration-in-phoenix – Phoenix is using Earthly for running tests on CI and locally https://github.com/sasa1977/ci – Sasa Juric releases a hex package to run CI https://hexdocs.pm/oban/web-changelog.html#v2-5-0-2021-01-15 – Oban Web v2.5.0 is out with new features https://hex.pm/blog/hex-v0.21-released – Hex 0.21 released. Adds registry self-hosting and more! https://hex.pm/docs/self_hosting – Documentation on self-hosting Hex https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1350004900973981699 – Jose Valim is requesting written guides or blog posts from people who have used "mix phx.gen.auth" and customized it https://github.com/erlang-ls/erlang_ls/releases/tag/0.8.0 – Erlang-LS - Language server 0.8 was released along with a VS Code extension https://thinkingelixir.com/petal-stack-in-elixir/ – ThinkingElixir post on PETAL stack https://changelog.com/posts/petal-the-end-to-end-web-stack – Lars Wikman post on PETAL stack https://redrapids.medium.com/petal-liveview-and-lamp-eb5e9f81a804 – Bruce Tate post on PETAL stack https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021/thinking-elixir – ThinkingElixir podcast will record live at LambdaDays 2021 - Feb 16th Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://allanmacgregor.com/posts/circuit-breaker-pattern-in-elixir https://siteguardian.dev https://www.humi.ca/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow-based_programming https://hex.pm/packages/flowex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJVzwaTiOdk https://hex.pm/packages/ok https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Object-Oriented/dp/0201633612/ https://bernheisel.com/blog/nostalgia-programming https://dashbit.co/ebooks/the-little-ecto-cookbook – The Little Ecto Cookbook https://microservices.io/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4p4e9Uwn6I Guest Information https://twitter.com/allanmacgregor – on Twitter https://github.com/amacgregor – on Github https://allanmacgregor.com – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward