126: Working at a Software Agency with the Wizards
Meet the Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford and hear what it’s like working at a Software Agency like SmartLogic vs a Product Company. Get to know them better and what they are working on today!
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Show Notes
As software developers, there are many different types of companies we can work at. We met up with the Elixir Wizards crew to learn more about working at a Software Agency like SmartLogic. We compare what this is like vs working at a product company. Of course, we take the opportunity to learn more about Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford, their journeys to Elixir and the work they are doing now. Sundi shares how becoming an Engineering Manager presented new growth opportunities and Owen goes deeper on the ETL system he's creating to migrate an MSSQL DB to Postgres and how gets to play with Broadway in the process.
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/126
Elixir Community News
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbmaPrkGCAzFMC_FYZUkmSr – Final batch of ElixirConf US 2022 videos were released!
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/github-actions-for-elixir-ci/ – CI for Elixir projects using Github Actions and CD to auto-deploying on Fly.io
- https://nathanwillson.com/blog/posts/2022-11-11-partitioned_tests/ – Nathan Wilson showed how to partition CI tests over more runners for faster overall time.
- https://twitter.com/nathanwillson/status/1591604043780358144 – Nathan Wilson documented how dead-view controllers, pages, and views were restructured.
- https://fly.io/phoenix-files/opentelemetry-and-the-infamous-n-plus-1/ – Alex Koutmos wrote a guide and sample project showing how to use OpenTelemetry with Elixir and visualize the data in Grafana.
- https://elixirforum.com/t/visual-font-for-diagramming-elixir/51477 – Unique Elixir font created that renders as graphics of data structures.
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
Discussion Resources
- https://smartlogic.io/
- https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/
- https://smartlogic.io/about/team
- https://www.cava.com/
- https://smartlogic.io/software-development/
- https://elixir-broadway.org/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract,_transform,_load
- https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-downloads
- https://github.com/elixir-ecto/tds
- https://hex.pm/packages/webauthn_live_component
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krbriAecqUk – Owen's ElixirConf talk about his WebAuthnLiveComponent
- https://smartlogic.io/about/jobs
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/smartlogic – SmartLogic on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/owenbickford – Owen on Twitter
- https://twitter.com/sundikhin – Sundi on Twitter
- https://github.com/smartlogic/ – SmartLogic on Github
- https://github.com/type1fool/ – Owen Bickford on Github
- https://github.com/liveshowy/webauthn_live_component
- https://www.owencode.com/ – Owen's blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir
- Email the show - [email protected]
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel
- Cade Ward - @cadebward
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