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 show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/thanos_tweets – on Twitter
[thanos.vassilakis@rbccm.com](thanos.vassilakis@rbccm.com) – Email
https://www.rbccm.com/en/ – Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets
https://elixirforum.com/u/thanos/summary – Thanos on Elixir Forum

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125: Elixir at the Royal Bank of Canada

Thinking Elixir Podcast

125: Elixir at the Royal Bank of Canada