Saša Jurić shares how the team at Very Big Things is building maintainable Elixir code. This ranges from the development processes to code design and organization. He takes some “radical” positions and challenges conventions on a mission to find what actually works well. We talk about his library Boundary and how it helps enforce API designs. He talks about the “Junk Drawer Pattern” and how code analysis helps identify lines of separation for refactoring. A thought provoking and fun discussion!

Show Notes online – https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/038-maintainable-elixir-with-sasa-juric

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1366417827528396803 – Jose Valim is stepping down in his role as Board Director of the The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1366427218306564096 – Jose Valim calls out to the Erlang community for any developers who are interested in Machine Learning
• https://pragprog.com//titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liveview/ – A new Phoenix LiveView book is coming out and is currently in a beta release
• https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1365031826813825033 – Chris McCord shared his perspective around the general community excitement with LiveView
• https://blog.aeternity.com/erlscripten-92c815786987 – The company https://aeternity.com released a project called “Erlscripten”
• https://seanmoriarity.com/ – Follow Sean Moriarity’s blog for his “Nx Tip of the Week” series
• https://www.erlang.org/news/144 – OTP 24 will release candidates have started
• https://hex.pm/packages/finch – Finch HTTP library
• https://twitter.com/chriskeathley/status/1364692787032113153 – Chris Keathley posted graphics showing the before and after performance charts from it’s use at BleacherReport
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/pull/3566 – Ecto.Multi.inspect/2,3 support being added to Ecto
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/1349/files – Fix for compiler warnings on live_component usage
• https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f – Discord announced why they were moving away from Go to Rust

Do you know some Elixir news we don’t? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir

Discussion Resources

• https://www.manning.com/books/elixir-in-action-second-edition – Elixir in Action 2nd Edition book
• https://verybigthings.com/
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-development-process-205ee257c109
• https://medium.com/very-big-things/towards-maintainable-elixir-the-core-and-the-interface-c267f0da43
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Complete
• https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670
• https://github.com/rrrene/credo
• https://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/lib/credo/check/readability/strict_module_layout.ex
• https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary
• https://github.com/sasa1977/ci
• https://elixirforum.com/

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/sasajuric – on Twitter
• https://github.com/sasa1977/ – on Github
• https://www.theerlangelist.com/ – Blog

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• David Bernheisel – @bernheisel
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