In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Mariano Guerra. Mariano wrote some wonderful tutorial blogs outlining how to use Riak Core in Elixir. He begins the episode by sharing a little about himself and his work. Mariano then defines Riak Core and tells the story of where it came from. He explains what he loves about Riak Core and dubs himself the unofficial cheerleader of Riak Core.   Mariano tells the panel about his blog articles and what listeners will find in them. He explains to the panel what inspired him to write them. Mariano then gives the panel examples of the problems solved by Riak Core and the best use cases for it. Partisan is the next subject the panel asks Mariano about. Mariano shares the story of where Partisan came from and explains when you want to use it.    Finally, Mariano tells the panel about his work for the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Right now he is working hard to unify the documentation for all the Beam languages. He shares his admiration for the Elixir documentation and explains that Erlang documentation needs a lot of work. The panel discusses how unifying the Beam will help the community and make their lives easier.  Panelists Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Sophie DeBenedetto Guest Mariano Guerra Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan CacheFly ____________________________________________________________ "The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job" by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon. Get Your Copy Today! ____________________________________________________________   Links TLA+  Riak Products  Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-value Store   https://github.com/basho/riak_core  Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Introduction  http://partisan.cloud/  https://blog.erlang.org/OTP-22-Highlights/  Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Setup  Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Getting Started    Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: We can make a Key Value Store out of that  Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Migrating Data with Handoff  Riak Core on Partisan on Elixir Tutorial: Resources  https://gitlab.com/marianoguerra/civiledb/  https://github.com/clojerl/clojerl  https://twitter.com/warianoguerrahttps://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix  https://twitter.com/elixir_mix Picks Mark Ericksen: Immutability - Computerphile  Simple Sabotage Field Manual  Mariano Guerra: Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and ElixirPractical TLA+: Planning Driven Development Josh Adams: Rewriting GitHub Pages with Riak Core, Riak KV, and Webmachine: Jesse Newland  Sophie DeBenedetto: How to Compose Queries in Ecto  Basque Burnt Cheesecake  Special Guest: Mariano Guerra. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support.

In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Sophie DeBenedetto. Sophie spoke at both The Big Elixir and ElixirConf 2019 about LiveView. She also works at Flatiron School. Sophie starts by sharing a little about Flatiron School, what they offer and what she does for them. The panel shares their experience with the quality of graduates from Flatiron School. Sophie explains that Flatiron School is all about community and they teach their students to love learning.  Sophie discusses her talks and shares the experiences she had with LiveView that inspired her talks. She tells the panel what it was like preparing for the talks. She explains the problems she faced with her LiveView project and how she eventually fixed it.  In one talk Sophie talks about looking under the hood at LiveView. She tells the panel about this experience, this leads the panel to discuss the LiveView documentation. They consider the helpfulness of the phrase “it’s a process” in the documentation. Sophie explains how she prefers documentation to be more clear and more expansive. The panel considers the importance of expounding in the documentation as most Elixir users are new to the language. The panel discusses when the best time to learn OTP is for a developer new to Elixir.  The panel discusses Sophie’s blog post about her work in LiveView. They discuss some of their work in LiveView as well. The panel goes over some of the features they have tried in their projects and the ones they look forward to trying. Sophie ends the episode by comparing LiveView to her previous coding experiences, she describes it as a breath of fresh air.  Panelists Mark Ericksen Josh Adams Michael Ries Guest Sophie DeBenedetto Sponsors Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan CacheFly Links The Big Elixir 2019 - Beyond Liveview: Real Time Features With Liveview - Sophie DeBenedettoElixirConf 2019 - Beyond LiveView: Building Real-Time... - Sophie DeBenedettoThe Big Elixir  https://flatironschool.com/  Erlang distribution over TLS  Erlang (and Elixir) distribution without epmd  https://hex.pm/packages/libcluster  Building a Table Sort UI with Live View's `live_link`   Functional Web Development with Elixir, OTP, and Phoenix   Building beautiful systems with Phoenix contexts... by Andrew Hao  https://twitter.com/sm_debenedettohttps://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix  https://twitter.com/elixir_mix Picks Mark Ericksen: That Sugar Film  US Legal system and jury selection Sophie DeBenedetto: Mix And Hex The Power Couple Of The Elixir Community - Todd Resudek  Rebuilding Espec: Foundations In Metaprogramming, - Bruce Park  Josh Adams: A Different Kind of Transparency  Michael Ries: Which ports does distributed Erlang use? List of animals by number of neurons Special Guest: Sophie DeBenedetto. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/elixir-mix--6102049/support.