We talk with Philipp Schmieder about his experience creating a LiveView application for a political party’s convention and then watching the app blow up. We learn how he recovered, why it failed, and how he fixed it going forward. We also discuss some other application architecture ideas and how they might work. It’s a great post-mortem discussion where Philipp shares his wisdom so others learn from the mistakes. After experiencing all this, find out why he’s still bullish on LiveView and Elixir!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/55

Elixir Community News

https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConfEU - Warsaw Poland, September 9-10
https://2021.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf US 2021 Austin, TX October 12-13 and Online, October 14-15.
https://www.codebeambr.com/ – Code Beam Brazil posted their videos from 2020
https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook/pull/389 – Livebook gets "reactive inputs"
https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook/pull/410 – Livebook gets input color selectors
https://github.com/kw7oe/livebook-notebooks/blob/main/debugging-with-tracing-in-elixir-with-recon_trace.livemd – Notebook explaining recon_trace by Kai Wern
https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir – Tell us about your project, post, conference, or other Elixir news!

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

Discussion Resources

https://pentacent.com/blog/failing-big-elixir-liveview/
https://twitter.com/pentacent_hq/status/1399330035937464320
:observer.start
:crashdump_viewer.start
https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_pubsub/Phoenix.Tracker.html
https://hex.pm/packages/etso
https://www.keila.io/ – MailChimp-like project extracted for helping with mailings

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/pentacent_hq – on Twitter
https://github.com/wmnnd/ – on Github
https://pentacent.com/ – Blog

Find us online

Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com
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David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
Cade Ward - @cadebward

55: Learning from Failure with Philipp Schmieder

Thinking Elixir Podcast

55: Learning from Failure with Philipp Schmieder