193: Operational Elixir: Observing the Midsize Madness

In this engaging third episode of our series, Dave Lucia returns to delve into the various systems that support small and medium-sized teams and companies for their Elixir systems. Dave shares insights gained from a range of situations including working at startups on up to Series C and D sized companies, with a particular focus on the critical role of observability tools. Drawing on his extensive experience, Dave discusses how these tools can greatly enhance a team's ability to monitor and troubleshoot applications, ensuring high performance and reliability. Tune in for a comprehensive look at the essential systems and tools that can make a tangible difference in the day-to-day operations of Elixir-powered organizations, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/193

Elixir Community News

• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1762921819776934146 – José Valim has teased a new feature for Elixir 1.17 which may include a mix test flag --breakpoints for debugging failed tests.
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-version-1/ – Gleam v1.0 has been released, marking the language's stability and readiness for production with a commitment to maintain backwards compatibility.
• https://github.com/underjord/entrace – Lars Wikman shared his work on the Entrace tracing project, offering easier tracing support to applications.
• https://github.com/underjord/entrace_live_dashboard – Entrac LiveDashboard was announced by Lars Wikman to add a tracing page to the LiveDashboard plugin.
• https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeGxJUadP1CaaU6EnTwe7Hv76RnBLIiqT6SJLIBvncHcEzGRg/viewform – The Call for Proposals for talks at ElixirConfUS is open, including information to book hotel rooms for the event taking place from August 28-30, 2024.

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

Discussion Resources

• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/75 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about RabbitMQ and Commanded
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/97 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Avro and Elixir
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/129 – Previous interview with Dave Lucia talking about Time series data with Timescale DB
• https://Sentry.io
• https://www.servicenow.com/products/observability.html – Observability tool formerly knowns as LightStep
• https://www.honeycomb.io/
• https://opentelemetry.io/docs/collector/
• https://github.com/open-telemetry
• https://opentelemetry.io/docs/concepts/signals/traces/
• https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry
• https://hex.pm/packages/opentelemetry_exporter
• https://davelucia.com/ – Dave's personal blog
• https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus
• https://grafana.com/
• https://grafana.com/docs/loki/latest/send-data/promtail/
• https://fly.io/docs/reference/metrics/
• https://isburmistrov.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-wide-events-not-metrics
• https://amplitude.com/
• Custom LiveView admin pages for dashboards
• https://postmarkapp.com/
• https://sendgrid.com/en-us
• https://milkroad.com/ – A newsletter company that Dave Lucia worked at.
• https://www.beehiiv.com/ – Newsletters as a service company
• https://ahrefs.com/ – Tracking the back links from other sites to yours for SEO
• https://search.google.com/search-console/about
• https://github.com/dbernheisel/phoenix_seo
• https://tvlabs.ai/ – Where Dave Lucia is working now.

Guest Information

• https://twitter.com/davydog187 – on Twitter
• https://github.com/davydog187/ – on Github
• https://davelucia.com – Blog
• https://tvlabs.ai – TVLabs company where he works now.

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