# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean Stavropoulos
We're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL.
In this show, we touch on:
* The adoption of Elixir early in 2017
* The adoption of GraphQL early
* GraphQL vs REST, especially for third party APIs
* Hiring Elixir engineers
* How they deploy and run Elixir
* How they do observability and monitoring
* How stateful are their services
* The future vision for Elixir at Boulevard
## Links
- Boulevard: https://joinblvd.com
- Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanstavro
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X
- Absinthe GQL: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe
- Absinthe Dataloader: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/dataloader
- Apollo GraphQL: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Honeycomb: https://honeycomb.io
- AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
- Postgres tuning and performance at Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
- Spandex: https://github.com/spandex-project/spandex
- OpenCensus Elixir: https://github.com/opencensus-beam/opencensus_elixir
- Absinthe Subscriptions: https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/subscriptions.html
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# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean Stavropoulos
We're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL.
In this show, we touch on:
* The adoption of Elixir early in 2017
* The adoption of GraphQL early
* GraphQL vs REST, especially for third party APIs
* Hiring Elixir engineers
* How they deploy and run Elixir
* How they do observability and monitoring
* How stateful are their services
* The future vision for Elixir at Boulevard
## Links
- Boulevard: https://joinblvd.com
- Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanstavro
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X
- Absinthe GQL: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe
- Absinthe Dataloader: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/dataloader
- Apollo GraphQL: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Honeycomb: https://honeycomb.io
- AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
- Postgres tuning and performance at Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
- Spandex: https://github.com/spandex-project/spandex
- OpenCensus Elixir: https://github.com/opencensus-beam/opencensus_elixir
- Absinthe Subscriptions: https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/subscriptions.html
Episode 164 - Quarantine Special: Module Organization in Elixir
Elixir Talk
38 minutes 24 seconds
5 years ago
Episode 164 - Quarantine Special: Module Organization in Elixir
We’re back with another episode of ElixirTalk. In this episode Chris & Desmond do a deep dive on organizing code in Elixir and talk about some best practices. We recorded this a couple weeks ago so it may sound a little stale :)
We touch on:
* Module and context naming
* How we like to organize code in our projects
* Big long modules vs many small modules
* How to split up contexts
* Injecting code via macros
## Links
* On the Criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules - D.L Parnas: https://www.win.tue.nl/~wstomv/edu/2ip30/references/criteria_for_modularization.pdf
* Proposal for some ew rules for Phoenix contexts: https://devonestes.herokuapp.com/a-proposal-for-context-rules
* Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend: https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to
* How to use `use` well: https://dockyard.com/blog/2017/12/07/macro-madness-how-to-use-use-well
* Protocols in Elixir: https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/Protocol.html
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# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean Stavropoulos
We're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL.
In this show, we touch on:
* The adoption of Elixir early in 2017
* The adoption of GraphQL early
* GraphQL vs REST, especially for third party APIs
* Hiring Elixir engineers
* How they deploy and run Elixir
* How they do observability and monitoring
* How stateful are their services
* The future vision for Elixir at Boulevard
## Links
- Boulevard: https://joinblvd.com
- Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanstavro
- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X
- Absinthe GQL: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe
- Absinthe Dataloader: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/dataloader
- Apollo GraphQL: https://www.apollographql.com/
- Honeycomb: https://honeycomb.io
- AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/
- Postgres tuning and performance at Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/
- Spandex: https://github.com/spandex-project/spandex
- OpenCensus Elixir: https://github.com/opencensus-beam/opencensus_elixir
- Absinthe Subscriptions: https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/subscriptions.html
