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 show@thinkingelixir.com

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

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51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas

Thinking Elixir Podcast

51: Live Auctions with Alex Loukissas