164: Delving into Elixir with Keyvan Akbary

Three Devs and a Maybe

In this weeks episode we are lucky to have Keyvan Akbary back on the show. We start off by discussing the job role he has taken since moving back to Madrid, and the importance of building autonomous teams. From here, we talk about the technology stack they are using at Cabify, highlighting some of the interesting features found in Elixir and Go. Finally, we touch upon Cabify’s infrastructure and deployment strategy, showcasing how awesome GitLab is along the way.

Show Links

• Keyvan Akbary
• Keyvan Akbary on GitHub
• Keyvan Akbary on Twitter
• Life as a Software Developer with Keyvan Akbary - Three Devs and a Maybe
• Cabify
• TransferWise
• Elixir
• The Go Programming Language
• Erlang/OTP
• The Phoenix Framework
• 100 functions, 1 data structure vs. 10 functions, 10 data structures
• Erlang — dialyzer
• phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view - Rich, real-time user experiences with server-rendered HTML
• Programming Elixir 1.6 - The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Programming Phoenix 1.4 - The Pragmatic Bookshelf
• Exercism - Elixir
• CodeWars - Elixir
• GitLab
• GitLab - Auto DevOps
• Nomad by HashiCorp
• asdf-vm/asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Elixir