51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas

We talk with Alex Loukissas about using Phoenix sockets to provide live auction systems. We comment on the situation of flash-mob-like users coming to a system and needing to handle high traffic volumes for shorter durations. We talk about how the Horde library helps solve fun distributed clustering problems, we cover observability tools, how and why companies should support open source development through sponsorships and more! Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/51 Elixir Community News https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.1 – Elixir 1.12.1 released. Small set of bug fixes. https://github.com/ananthakumaran/tree-sitter-elixir – New tree-sitter Elixir parser. Used in Atom, Neovim and Emacs https://github.blog/2018-10-31-atoms-new-parsing-system/ https://github.com/ubolonton/emacs-tree-sitter https://github.com/nvim-treesitter https://fly.io/blog/livebook-for-app-documentation/ – Mark's Fly.io blog post on using Livebook as a project documentation tool https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1399733953217679367 – Jose Valim teases new Livebook feature with this graphic https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples – Wojtek Mach created a repo showing example usages of Mix.install. https://twitter.com/thebroken_link/status/1399713273340207109 – Support for "curl url | sh" style scripts using Elixir https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1399714176667471878 – Stack Overflow survey is out and both Erlang/Elixir are on the menu. https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/05/25/the-2021-developer-survey-is-now-open/ https://stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7arimtzVFf8ipfM Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources http://whatnot.com https://www.splunk.com/ https://reactnative.dev/ https://kotlinlang.org/ https://swift.org/ https://goshippo.com/ https://github.com/derekkraan/horde https://fly.io/ https://fly.io/blog/building-a-distributed-turn-based-game-system-in-elixir/ https://newrelic.com/ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/capabilities/wombatoam/ https://www.honeycomb.io/ https://jobs.lever.co/whatnot/ Guest Information https://twitter.com/aloukissas – on Twitter https://github.com/aloukissas – on Github https://alexloukissas.com – Blog Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward