128: Speedy like a Bandit

The Phoenix 1.7 announcement blog post mentioned the ability to swap out Cowboy for another webserver like Bandit. We talked with Mat Trudel to learn more about his pure-Elixir webserver and find out how it works with Phoenix. We learn Bandit can be up to 5x faster by narrowly focusing on turning a request into a Plug connection and much more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/128

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/features/security/ – Github's Dependabot now supports private hex repositories.
• https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1595526317436452864 – Parker Selbert brought this to our attention.
• https://docs.github.com/en/code-security/dependabot/dependabot-version-updates/configuration-options-for-the-dependabot.yml-file#hex-repository
• https://hexdocs.pm/mix/Mix.Tasks.Deps.Unlock.html – CI tip to check for unused mix lock entries
• https://twitter.com/RudManusachi/status/1597341690653999106 – Shared by Rudolf on Twitter
• mix deps.unlock --check-unused
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/github-actions-for-elixir-ci/ – CI resource for Elixir projects on Github
• https://twitter.com/TechRecHayden/status/1595776257513373699 – Hayden Evans spotted that Zoom is using Erlang in production for their chat platform.
• Mastadon instances to consider if looking for a Twitter alternative...
• https://genserver.social/about
• https://hachyderm.io/explore
• https://fosstodon.org/
• https://mastodon.social/explore
• https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2023 – Lambda Days conference returns as an in-person only event to Kraków on 5-6 June 2023.

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]

Discussion Resources

• https://phoenixframework.org/blog/phoenix-1.7-released – Phoenix 1.7 blog post described at the end - “Alternative Webserver Support”
• https://github.com/mtrudel/bandit – “Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications”
• https://github.com/mtrudel/thousand_island – “Thousand Island is a pure Elixir socket server, powering the layer underneath Bandit”
• https://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/2.9/guide/ – Cowboy docs
• https://www.pagerduty.com/
• https://github.com/ninenines/cowlib
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLjWyanLHuk
• https://github.com/crossbario/autobahn-testsuite
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#CRC-32_algorithm
• https://github.com/phoenixframework/websock
• https://hexdocs.pm/plug/Plug.Conn.html#upgrade_adapter/3
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/57 – Scaling Live Chat with Cade Ward episode
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP/3
• https://github.com/mtrudel/talks/blob/main/2022-05-EMPEX-MTX-a-funny-thing-happened-on-the-way-to-the-phoenix.pdf – 2022 EMPEX presentation slides
• https://github.com/mtrudel/talks/blob/main/2021-10-ElixirConf-bandit-on-the-loose.pdf – 2021 Elixir Conf presentation slides

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/mattrudel – on Twitter
• https://github.com/mtrudel/ – on Github
• https://mat.geeky.net – Blog

Find us online

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• Email the show - [email protected]
• Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
• David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
• Cade Ward - @cadebward