Episodes
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24: Elixir Roundtable #24: Launching and Growing with Elixir with Chase Granberry
February 16th, 2024 | Season 3 | 50 mins 24 secs
digital products, elixir, product development
DockYard CEO Brian Cardarella is joined by Chase Granberry, founder of Logflare and current member of the Supabase team. Chase shares his journey of using Elixir. He discusses the advantages of Elixir, the challenges he faced, and the decision-making process behind adopting the language. Among the advantages he saw was the ability to launch Logflare with a minimal development team thanks to Elixir. They discuss the increasing complexity of competing languages like Javascript, some of the hurdles to wider Elixir use, and more.
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23: Elixir Roundtable #23: What's Next in Tech with Tech Entrepreneur Foy Savas
January 23rd, 2024 | Season 3 | 1 hr 4 mins
digital products, elixirlang, product development, tech
In this episode, DockYard CEO and Founder Brian Cardarella discusses the tech industry, product development, and what it takes to launch a successful digital product with tech entrepreneur Foy Savas. They discuss Foy's background in the tech industry, including his experience launching Auxpanel, a business intelligence product for dentists, with his wife. They then move on to discuss emerging tech, including artificial intelligence, what it takes to succeed in product development, and Elixir as a modern tech stack for successful startups.
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22: Elixir Roundtable #22: Making the Switch to Elixir with Amplified's Chris Grainger
December 8th, 2023 | Season 2 | 51 mins 7 secs
In this conversation, Chris Grainger, CTO of Amplified, discusses how he decided to adopt Elixir at Amplified and the benefits he's seen from it.
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21: Elixir RoundTable #21 - ECSx: Elixir for GameDev
August 2nd, 2023 | Season 2 | 48 mins 52 secs
Brooklin and the DockYard team speak with our very own Andrew Berrien on his open-source library, ECSx. It focuses on Elixir specifically for game development.
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20: Elixir RoundTable #20 - DockYard Academy Graduates Yusef Mosiahc Nathanson and Einar Engström
May 10th, 2023 | Season 2 | 55 mins 9 secs
Brooklin Myers and two recent DockYard Academy graduates discuss their experience completing the course. A few friends from the DockYard engineering team join in to learn more.
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19: Keeping Yourself Energized in Engineering with Mike & Brooklin
March 21st, 2023 | Season 2 | 48 mins 49 secs
dockyard academy, elixir
Mike Binns a DockYard Principal Engineer, Brooklin Meyers - DockYard Academy's lead instructor, and Matthew Stebbins DockYards Marketing Manager discuss how to stay energized within their respective fields and share their stories about what helps them get through the peaks and valleys of their careers
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18: LiveView Native with Brian C and Brooklin
March 6th, 2023 | Season 2 | 45 mins 20 secs
elixir, liveview native
Brooklin and Brian Cardarella discuss the current state of DockYard's very own, LiveView Native, and how to grow the Elixir ecosystem in such a competitive marketplace.
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DockYard Website: https://dockyard.com/
LiveView Natvie Github: https://github.com/liveviewnative
DockYard's Latest Blog on LVN update: https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/01/17/liveview-native-yearly-update💻's
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17: Numerical Elixir with Paulo Valente
March 4th, 2023 | Season 2 | 40 mins 20 secs
elixir
Brooklin and the DockYard crew speak with Paulo about machine learning using Numerical Elixir
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DockYard Website: https://dockyard.com/
Numerical Elixir Github: https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx
DockYard's Blogs on NX: https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/03/15/nx-for-absolute-beginners
https://dockyard.com/blog/2022/07/12/elixir-versus-python-for-data-science💻's
https://twitter.com/DockYard
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16: Firefly update with Brian C and Paul S
February 27th, 2023 | Season 2 | 51 mins 7 secs
elixir, podcast, programming
Brian Cardarella and the team speak with Paul Schoenfelder, a Firefly (fka Lumen) core team member about why this R&D initiative is essential to DockYard and when you can see more of it.
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DockYard Website: https://dockyard.com/
Firefly Landing Page: https://getfirefly.org/💻's
https://twitter.com/DockYard
https://twitter.com/bcardarella
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15: LiveView Native
September 22nd, 2022 | Season 1 | 54 mins 17 secs
dockyard roundtable
Brian Cardarella and the team speak more about LiveView Native and what it can do.
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14: Type Anarchy
July 26th, 2022 | Season 1 | 41 mins 32 secs
Nathan Long and the Dockyard team discuss how to fix test deadlocks caused by database transactions. The engineering team also weighs in on how they feel about types in Elixir.
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13: Bandit and Thousand Island with Mat Trudel
July 25th, 2022 | Season 1 | 57 mins 16 secs
Mat is the author of the Thousand Island and Bandit libraries, meant to be drop-in replacements for Ranch and Cowboy.
They are both built-in pure Elixir to be very fast, standards-compliant, and readable. We talked about networking, how Thousand Island manages TCP socket connections for you, how Bandit translates between that socket and Plug, and the future of Bandit in supporting websockets, at which point it will be production-ready for Phoenix applications.