ElixirConf 2018 Summary 🐥 🔥

A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2018. Please feel free to submit a PR!

• Location: Bellevue, WA
• Dates: September 4-7
• Conference format: 2 days of courses and 2 days of talks
• Keynotes by: Jose Valim, Justin Schneck, and Chris McCord

Table of Contents

• YouTube Playlist
• What's New
• ElixirConf Courses
• ElixirConf Talks
• Community Related Links
• Newsletters
• Podcasts
• Regional Conferences
• Recommended Books
• Job Boards
• Heard these companies are hiring

What's New

• Phoenix.LiveView
• Scenic
• Distillery 2.0
• ExUnit Clustered Cases
• NervesHub

ElixirConf Courses

Building Production-ready GraphQL APIs

by Bruce Williams and Ben Wilson

• Slides:
  • Day 1
  • Day 2
• Example project:
  • GitHub link: https://github.com/bruce/pastex
  • ^ the branches in the repo are ordered and show the different steps taken when building the example project during the course
• Links:
  • 'Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe' Book: https://pragprog.com/book/wwgraphql/craft-graphql-apis-in-elixir-with-absinthe
  • GraphQL
  • Absinthe
  • Tutorial and guides: https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/overview.html
  • Relay framework: https://facebook.github.io/relay/
  • Absinthe.Relay: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe_relay
  • Dataloader: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/dataloader
• Absinthe's Elixir Slack Channel: #absinthe-graphql
• Follow Absinthe on Twitter: https://twitter.com/absinthegraphql

Learning Elixir

Ecto: From the Ground Up

Phoenix Basics

Build Next Generation, Real-Time Applications with Phoenix and OTP

by Chris McCord and Chris Freeze

• Example Project: https://github.com/chrismccord/sketchpad

Introduction to Concurrent Programming with Elixir

by Rob Keefer and Paul Spencer

• Example Project: https://github.com/pomiet/workshop_steps

Build smart touchscreen kiosks with Nerves and Phoenix

Less-Pain Embedded Systems with Elixir and Nerves

ElixirConf Talks

Keynote: Jose Valim

"The next five years"

• Adopting EEP 48
• Membrane Framework
• Elixir Development
• Formatter
• Property-Based Testing Book
• XHTTP
• Distillery 2.0
• Gradualizer

Keynote: Justin Schneck

• Nerves Project
• NervesHub
• Nerves' open collective

Keynote: Chris McCord

Elixir at a Walking Pace

by Lance Halvorsen

• Le Tote
• ETS
• GenServer
• handle_continue
• Registry
• GenServer.whereis/1
• DynamicSupervisor
• hibernate
• Swarm
• Hybrid Logical Clocks for Elixir
• Partisan

UX Design Practices for Real Time Apps

by Bailey Miller

• POA's BlockScout
• UX Design
• Last seen pagination
• Moment.js
• CSS transitions
• easings.net
• CSS animatons
• Bus detective
• OceanConnect Marine

Growing Applications and Taming Complexity

Ticket to Fly: Porting an Application from Rails to Phoenix

by Catherine Zoller

• Arc: Flexible file upload and attachment library for Elixir
• Arc Ecto
• D3.js
• Fabric.js
• Ecto.Multi

Making a GraphQL Server with Absinthe & Dataloader

Building Video Chat with Elixir & Phoenix

Exchange of Crypto Coins

Beyond Command and Response Chatbot

Meet Virtuoso: The Chatbot Orchestration Framework Built with Elixir

My first Nerves Project: Bioreactor

Did You Hear That Wind?

A Deep Dive Into Hex

by Todd Resudek

• Slides
• Weedmaps
• Engineering Blog
• Hex

You Can Never Debug the Code You Run, But You Can View the Code the Debugger is Running

Architecting Flow in Elixir - From Leveraging Pipes to Designing Token APIs

Simple is Beautiful: Building an SLA Monitoring Tool Using Elixir/OTP at PagerDuty

We're Just Getting Started - Our Three Years with Elixir

Take Your Time

by Ben Marx

• Slides
• Bleacher Report
• Adopting Elixir (Book)
• Erlang Scheduler
• Preemption Computing
• Cooperative Multitasking
• NIFs
• Dirty Schedulers
• system-monitor/2
• Rust
• Programming Rust Book
• Why Rust? Safe C
• Avoiding Logic Errors
• Rustler
• Taking Elixir to the Metal
• Safe Elixir and Erlang NIFs in Rust

Interfacing with Machine-Learned Models

Event Sourcing in Real World Applications: Challenges, Successes and Lessons Learned

by James Smith

• Gaslight
• Event Storming
• Event Sourcing
• Commanded
• Maestro
• EventBus
• The Many Meanings of Event-Driven Architecture • Martin Fowler

Understanding Elixir's (Re)compilation

Picking Properties to Test in Property-Based Testing

Behavior Trees and Battleship: Tapping into the Power of Advanced Data Structures

by Jeff Schomay

• Behavior tree
• Zipper (data structure)
• Elixir library for building AI's from composable behavior trees
• Elixir AI for the "Battleship" game to demonstrate an elixir behavior tree library

Breaking Down the User Monolith

Sustainable Testing

Going Multi-Node

by Eric Oestrich

• ExVenture
• MidMUD
• DiscworldMUD
• MajorMUD
• libcluster
• Raft
• Simple leader election for Elixir applications

Docker and OTP: Friends or Foes?

by Daniel Azuma

• Talk notes and links
• Tanx
• Docker / Kubernetes
• LibCluster
• Horde
• delta_crdt_ex
• Swarm
• Lasp
• Gigalixir

Empirical Monkeys: A Practitioner’s Take on Breaking Distributed Elixir Systems via Property-Based Testing

Introducing Scenic - A Functional UI Framework

by Boyd Multerer

• Scenic Framework
• ScenicNew
• Scenic Clock
• Kry10

Using Elixir GenStage to Track Video Watch Progress

Handling Success: Development and Deployment Beyond Hello World

Erlang/OTP: What's in the Box?

Using Elixir and OTP behaviors to monitor infrastructure

Texas: Virtual DOM Library for Server-Side V-DOM.

Scaling Concurrency Without Getting Burned

by Alex Garibay

• Slides

Down the Memory Lane: a Tale of Memory Leaks

Building a Stateful Web Application with Elixir

Community Related Links

• Elixir on Slack: https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/
• Elixir Forum: https://elixirforum.com/
• Elixir on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elixirlang
• Phoenix on Twitter: https://twitter.com/elixirphoenix
• Elixir website: https://elixir-lang.org/
• Phoenix website: https://phoenixframework.org/
• Nerves website: https://nerves-project.org/

Newsletters

• Elixir Radar: http://plataformatec.com.br/elixir-radar/weekly-newsletter
• Elixir Weekly: https://elixirweekly.net/

Podcasts

• Elixir Fountain: http://elixirfountain.com/
• Elixir Outlaws: https://elixiroutlaws.com/
• Elixir Talk: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/elixirtalk/id1298287048
• Elixir Mix: https://devchat.tv/elixir-mix/

Regional Conferences

• Elixir Daze (St. Augustine/Denver): http://www.elixirdaze.com/
• Empex (New York and LA): http://empex.co/
• The Big Elixir (New Orleans): https://www.thebigelixir.com/
• Gig City Elixir (Chattanooga): https://www.gigcityelixir.com/

Recommended Books

• Programming Phoenix 1.4: https://pragprog.com/book/phoenix14/programming-phoenix-1-4
  • Discount code: Phoenix_Workshop_2018
• Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir: https://propertesting.com/index.html
• Adopting Elixir: https://pragprog.com/book/tvmelixir/adopting-elixir
• Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe: https://pragprog.com/book/wwgraphql/craft-graphql-apis-in-elixir-with-absinthe
• Elixir in Action, Second Edition: https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition
• The Beam Book: https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook
• Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix: https://pragprog.com/book/lhelph/functional-web-development-with-elixir-otp-and-phoenix

Video Courses

• ElixirCasts
• Elixir/OTP Pragmatic Studio Video Course
• Elixir for Programmers by Dave Thomas
• Daily Drip's Elixir Contnet

Other Recommended Resources

• Elixircards
• Elixir School

Job Boards

• Elixir Radar: http://plataformatec.com.br/elixir-radar/jobs
• Elixir Jobs: https://elixirjobs.net/
• Elixir Career: https://elixir.career/
• #jobs channel on Elixir's Slack

Heard these companies are hiring

• POA
• Gaslight