After covering the news we catch up on what Elixir things we've been thinking about and working on. Mark brings up using Livebook as a Business Intelligence tool for doing analysis of a running application's data. David brings up how to design safe data migrations in Elixir systems, examples from the Rails ecosystem and how he's thinking about that for Elixir.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/58

Elixir Community News

https://2021.elixirconf.com/#up-next – ElixirConf talks are being accepted! Speakers not yet fully announced.
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/453 – Livebook gets "hover contexts".
https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases/tag/v0.2.16 – Nerves Livebook updated release
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lUa7PACV8 – Elixir Roundtable Number 4
https://github.com/CargoSense/dart_sass – Mix wrapper around dart-sass

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

https://fly.io/blog/better-business-intelligence-in-elixir-with-livebook/
https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/elixir-livebook-connection-to-your-app/#business-intelligence-through-livebook – Fly.io docs for doing BI with Livebook to running apps
https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook – Livebook project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence – Business Intelligence or BI
https://www.metabase.com/ – OpenSource BI tool
https://rubygems.org/gems/strong_migrations – RubyGem StrongMigrations

Guest Information

No special guests this time.

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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

58: News and Livebook for Business Intelligence

Thinking Elixir Podcast

58: News and Livebook for Business Intelligence