Adopting Elixir Finale with Sean Lewis, Anna Neyzber, and René Föhring
March 25, 2021

An Elixir podcast from SmartLogic; conversations with software developers from around the world on the Elixir language and other modern web technologies.
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Elixir Wizards is an interview-format podcast, focused on engineers who use the Elixir programming language. Initially launched in early 2019, each season focuses on a specific topic or topics, with each interview focusing on the guest's experience and opinions on the topic.
Have a great season topic idea, guest suggestion, or other feedback? Email it to us at [email protected] or tweet at us @smartlogic, we love hearing from our listeners.
Note: We've resumed per-episode transcripts starting with Season Four, but our transcribers aren't technical experts — if you see any errors in the show transcripts, you can submit a pull request and we'll happily make the updates!
Our theme for season five is Adopting Elixir. We talk with technology leaders at product companies, consultancies, and on internal technical teams about their companies' journeys to adopting Elixir (or not adopting Elixir). New episodes drop on Thursdays starting December 3rd.
Jenn Gamble on Data Science, Machine Learning, and Elixir
March 18, 2021
John Mertens on Adopting Elixir at Change.org
March 11, 2021
Sophie DeBenedetto on Programming Phoenix LiveView
March 4, 2021
Brian Howenstein on How ClusterTruck is Innovating Food Delivery
February 18, 2021
Alexandra Chakeres on Moving Towards an Inclusive Elixir Community
February 4, 2021
Brian Cardarella on Adopting Elixir
January 28, 2021
Jason Axelson on the Elixir Language Server
January 14, 2021
Steve Domin on Innovating Travel APIs
January 8, 2021
Shawn Vo on Elixir as a Competitive Advantage
December 29, 2020
Viktória Fördős on Erlang
December 22, 2020
Simon Glenn-Gregg on Building an Election Results Prototype in Elixir
December 17, 2020
Randall Thomas on Learning Elixir and Why Community Matters
December 10, 2020
In season four our theme was Application and System Architecture; we talked with guests about how they think about design vs architecture, domain driven design, umbrella apps, and more.
The really important thing that architecture should do is carve out a safe space so you can build your essential complexity. And that safe space is where I want to work in.— Mark Windholtz in S4E14 on Domain-Driven Design
Anna Sherman on Change, Failure, and living in Gig City
October 8, 2020
Devon Estes on how Architecture Is a Myth and One-file Design
October 1, 2020
Lizzie Paquette on Compiling, Microliths, and Macros
September 24, 2020
Eric Steen on Neuroevolution in AI
September 17, 2020
Johnny Winn on Kitchen Secrets and Beautiful Coding
September 10, 2020
Miki Rezentes on how it's APIs All the Way Down
September 1, 2020
ElixirConf 2020 Preview
August 27, 2020
Mark Windholtz on Domain-Driven Design (DDD)
August 20, 2020
Lau Taarnskov on the Trouble with Time Zones
July 23, 2020
Chris McCord with a Deep Dive on Phoenix
July 9, 2020
Dave Thomas on Learning How Things Work
June 18, 2020
Ben Marx on the Launch and Architecture of SubSpace
June 11, 2020
Pattern Matching - Johanna Larsson
June 9, 2020
Steve Bussey on Real-Time Applications
May 28, 2020
Pattern Matching With Todd - Michael Crumm
May 28, 2020
Season Four Launchisode
May 14, 2020
In season three our theme was Working with Elixir, encompassing Functional Programming, Hiring/Training, and Performance. The season ran from November 2019 to April 2020.
Challenging them, pushing them and still giving them enough information to figure something out and to get that win and to fix that bug or solve that problem or get to that next level of understanding – I think that’s how you can really teach someone to fall in love with coding.— Sophie DeBenedetto in S3E10 on Training and Building Elixir Projects Under Constraints
Season Three Wrap and Remote Work Tips
April 2, 2020
Saša Jurić on Training
March 19, 2020
Bonus Episode: Outlaws and Wizards
March 13, 2020
Devon Estes from Sketch on Benchee, Performance and Training
March 12, 2020
Second Annual Lonestar Lunchisode
March 5, 2020
Bonus Toddcast & Lonestar Preview
February 27, 2020
Alex Garibay and Mike Binns from DockYard on Hiring and Training
February 20, 2020
Sean Lewis from Divvy on Performance, Hiring and Training
February 13, 2020
Paul Schoenfelder and Hans Elias Josephsen on Lumen and Performance
February 6, 2020
Brooklyn Zelenka on Functional Programming
January 23, 2020
Bruce and Maggie Tate from Groxio on Training
January 16, 2020
Dan Ivovich from SmartLogic on Hiring and Training
January 9, 2020
Eric Meadows Jönsson on Hex and Working with Elixir
January 2, 2020
Chris Keathley on Performance and Functional Programming
December 19, 2019
Brad Traylor of Podium on Training & Hiring – Working with Elixir
December 5, 2019
José Valim, Creator of Elixir
November 26, 2019
Season 3 Trailer
November 19, 2019
In our second season, released from July-September of 2019, we focused on Elixir Internals; we talked with developers behind some of the most popular Elixir libraries, including Witchcraft, ElixirScript, Distillery, Ecto, and more!
Contributing back to libraries both forces you to read how other people are writing code and collaborate with other people.— Brooklyn Zelenka in S2E1 Elixir Internals on Witchcraft
Season Two Wrap
October 3, 2019
Dave Lucia on Rustler – Elixir Internals
September 26, 2019
Eric Oestrich on ExVenture – Elixir Internals
September 19, 2019
Sophie DeBenedetto on Excrypt and Railway – Elixir Internals
September 12, 2019
Shanti Chellaram on Pri-Queue and raft_erl – Elixir Internals
September 5, 2019
Michał Muskała on Ecto and jason – Elixir Internals
August 29, 2019
Todd Resudek on Hex – Elixir Internals
August 22, 2019
Chris Keathley on Wallaby and Raft – Elixir Internals
August 15, 2019
René Föhring on Credo – Elixir Internals
August 8, 2019
Meryl Dakin on Token Alchemist – Elixir Internals
August 1, 2019
Paul Schoenfelder on Distillery – Elixir Internals
July 25, 2019
Bryan Joseph on ElixirScript – Elixir Internals
July 18, 2019
Brooklyn Zelenka on Witchcraft - Elixir Internals
July 11, 2019
Season 2 Trailer
July 9, 2019
Our first season, released from February-April of 2019, focused on Elixir in production and featured conversations with engineers who have live production apps built with Elixir. We talked about why Elixir, implementation details, libraries, patterns, and tips for real-world applications. Take a listen to the trailer embedded below or click in to any of the episodes in the list to listen to season one.
Elixir in Production Recap
April 18, 2019
Jeffrey Matthias from Community - Elixir in Production
April 11, 2019
Jay Ashe from Cava - Elixir in Production
April 4, 2019
Frank Hunleth - Elixir in Production
March 28, 2019
Mark Ericksen - Elixir in Production
March 21, 2019
Brooklyn Zelenka from SPADE Co. - Elixir in Production
March 14, 2019
Todd Resudek from Weedmaps - Elixir in Production
March 7, 2019
Lonestar ElixirConf 2019 Lunchisode
March 6, 2019
Dan Ivovich from SmartLogic - Elixir in Production
February 28, 2019
Ryan Billingsley from ClusterTruck - Elixir in Production
February 28, 2019
Smart Software Season 1 Trailer
February 25, 2019