We talk with Miguel Palhas about lessons learned while working with background jobs in production systems. He shares some tips he’s learned through experience. We share other mistakes made and what we learn from them. We cover background job options, choosing tech based on the team you have, IEx tips to remind yourself you’re on production, and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/7

Elixir Community News

https://hexdocs.pm/telemetry_registry/TelemetryRegistry.html – TelemetryRegistry
https://dashbit.co/blog/homemade-analytics-with-ecto-and-elixir – Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir by Jose Valim
https://github.com/lucaong/cubdb – CubDB
https://github.com/supersimple/devito – Devito link shortener
https://twitter.com/gigcityelixir/status/1285597147744874500 – GigCityElixir Conference was officially cancelled
https://2020.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2020 tickets are on sale and will be held virtually on September 3-4

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

Discussion Resources

https://blog.appsignal.com/2020/06/24/best-practices-for-background-jobs-in-elixir.html
http://subvisual.com/
https://utrust.com/
http://erlang.org/doc/man/gen_statem.html
https://hex.pm/packages/gen_stage
https://hex.pm/packages/broadway
https://hex.pm/packages/quantum
https://hex.pm/packages/exq
https://github.com/h4cc/awesome-elixir#queue
https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.html#configure/1
https://twitter.com/Alchemy__Conf – Subvisual’s Portugal Elixir conf Twitter account

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