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Thinking Elixir 211 - A Passion for Testing

Episode 211 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the recent release of Elixir 1.17.2, updates to Livebook v0.13 making clustering in Kubernetes easier and introducing a proxy API for webhooks, and exciting developments in the Explorer library with remote dataframes. We also discuss handy Phoenix tips from Andrew Stewart and the new Gleam 1.3.0 features. In our interview, German Velasco shares his journey from Rails to Elixir, his contributions like Elixir Streams and the Phoenix Test library, and his philosophy on TDD. German also speaks about his upcoming talk at ElixirConf and his desire for integrating JavaScript testing capabilities. Tune in to hear all this and more!

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