
brainlid
ThinkingElixir 056 - Fly-ing Elixir Close to Users with Kurt Mackey
In episode 56 of Thinking Elixir, Kurt Mackey, founder at Fly.io talks about what makes the Fly platform unique and why hosting Elixir applications there makes a lot of sense. They started out looking to make a better CDN for developers and this pushed them to try deploying Full Stack applications closer to users, not just the static assets! We learn about the tech behind the networking, how databases can be moved closer to users, and how LiveView is even more awesome when it is close to users. Kurt also shares what he sees as the future for databases as the industry continues to move into globally distributed applications.
Popular Backend topics

Apparently he decided to live-stream how he’s going to create a semver library.
New

Greetings from Membrane Framework team!
Check out our case study based on our latest projects at Software Mansion.
https://blog.swmansi...
New

This article was written by @rvirding …over a decade ago! Posting here in case anyone else finds it of interest and adding it to our Erla...
New

Ten years without Elixir.
I never got into Elixir, largely because it looked like Ruby. I was a Rubyist for a good while, spent time and...
New

If you’re interested in Rust this is worth a read :smiley:
Technology from the past come to save the future from itself
Hi
I have be...
New

Just listening to this now…
Totally agree with @FrancescoC’s and @thompson_si’s comment “learn to learn” :sunglasses:
In our talk we’...
New

Summary: I describe a simple interview problem (counting frequencies of unique words), solve it in various languages, and compare perform...
New

At Grammarly, the foundation of our business, our core grammar engine, is written in Common Lisp. It currently processes more than a thou...
New

Includes talk about concurrency and performance topics:
New

Erlang is famous for its introspecting powers. You can get a lot of information about the processes running in your nodes without any ext...
New
Other popular topics

Which, if any, games do you play? On what platform?
I just bought (and completed) Minecraft Dungeons for my Nintendo Switch. Other than ...
New

New

Please tell us what is your preferred monitor setup for programming(not gaming) and why you have chosen it.
Does your monitor have eye p...
New

Thanks to @foxtrottwist’s and @Tomas’s posts in this thread: Poll: Which code editor do you use? I bought Onivim! :nerd_face:
https://on...
New

“A Mystical Experience” Hero’s Journey with Paolo Perrotta @nusco
Ever wonder how authoring books compares to writing articles?...
New

Crystal recently reached version 1. I had been following it for awhile but never got to really learn it. Most languages I picked up out o...
New

Hi folks,
I don’t know if I saw this here but, here’s a new programming language, called Roc
Reminds me a bit of Elm and thus Haskell. ...
New

Author Spotlight
Jamis Buck
@jamis
This month, we have the pleasure of spotlighting author Jamis Buck, who has written Mazes for Prog...
New

I have always used antique keyboards like Cherry MX 1800 or Cherry MX 8100 and almost always have modified the switches in some way, like...
New

Will Swifties’ war on AI fakes spark a deepfake porn reckoning?
New
Categories:
Sub Categories:
Popular Portals
- /elixir
- /rust
- /ruby
- /wasm
- /erlang
- /phoenix
- /keyboards
- /rails
- /js
- /python
- /security
- /go
- /swift
- /vim
- /clojure
- /emacs
- /haskell
- /java
- /onivim
- /svelte
- /typescript
- /crystal
- /c-plus-plus
- /kotlin
- /tailwind
- /gleam
- /ocaml
- /react
- /elm
- /flutter
- /vscode
- /ash
- /opensuse
- /centos
- /php
- /deepseek
- /html
- /zig
- /scala
- /sublime-text
- /lisp
- /textmate
- /nixos
- /debian
- /agda
- /react-native
- /kubuntu
- /arch-linux
- /ubuntu
- /revery
- /django
- /spring
- /manjaro
- /nodejs
- /diversity
- /lua
- /slackware
- /julia
- /c
- /markdown