Maciej Kaszubowski returns to talk about how read models can help modularize our systems. There is a focus on background job systems and how they fit in our modular designs. We cover push vs pull based systems and which is more maintainable. Maciej also shares his approach to learning and understanding a new Elixir library and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/49

Elixir Community News

https://www.erlang.org/news/148 – OTP 24 was released!
https://blog.erlang.org/My-OTP-24-Highlights/ – Lukas Larsson's blog post covers the highlights
https://github.com/erlang/otp/issues/4821#issuecomment-840051976 – OTP 24 minor release pains - crypto OpenSSL lib change affects people on MacOS
https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/wiki – David's contribution to supporting the wxWidgets webview
https://twitter.com/fhunleth/status/1392843846183174149 – Livebook support on Nerves is improved
https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook – Lets you try out the Nerves projects on real hardware without needing to build anything. Includes tutorials.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/10983 – Allow tests to be compiled in ExUnit
https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/390 – Nx gets while loops
https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/406 – Nx gets maps support
https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1440 – HEEx engine merged into Phoenix LiveView
https://dashbit.co/blog/surface-liveview – Dashbit blog covering Surface and HEEX engine

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

Discussion Resources

https://mkaszubowski.com/2021/03/27/modular-design-read-models-background-jobs.html
https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/009-decomposing-models-with-maciej-kaszubowski – Previous interview with Maciej
https://www.joinblvd.com/
https://www.cqrs.nu/tutorial/cs/03-read-models
https://github.com/sorentwo/oban
https://github.com/commanded/commanded

Guest Information

https://twitter.com/mkaszubowski94 – on Twitter
https://github.com/mkaszubowski/ – on Github
https://mkaszubowski.com – Blog

Find us online

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49: Pushing for Modularity with Maciej Kaszubowski

Thinking Elixir Podcast

49: Pushing for Modularity with Maciej Kaszubowski