In this episode of the podcast we are joined by Chris Keathley to continue our exploration of Elixir internals as he tells us about two very popular libraries that he developed, Wallaby and Raft. We start off with some background and his initial experiences with Elixir and open source projects before diving into Wallaby and some of the biggest lessons that Chris learned during and after his work on the library.
Chris does a great job of explaining concurrent tests and the Sandbox and some of the reasons he has pretty much stopped working on the front end of projects. From there we move onto another one of Chris' exciting projects, Raft! In order to introduce the library, Chris explains more about consensus algorithms, Leslie Lamport and his groundbreaking work on Paxos. Raft is, in some ways, a simplified, more accessible version of Paxos for Elixir and Chris goes on to give a brief rundown of its inner workings. For this great conversation with a great guest, join us today!
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Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
SmartLogic — https://www.smartlogic.io/
Chris Keathley — https://keathley.io/
Chris Keathley on github — https://github.com/keathley
Bleacher Report — https://bleacherreport.com/
Wallaby — https://hexdocs.pm/wallaby/Wallaby.html
Raft — https://raft.github.io/
Erlang — https://www.erlang.org/
Slack — https://slack.com/
Leslie Lamport — http://www.lamport.org/
Paxos Made Live — https://blog.acolyer.org/2015/03/05/paxos-made-live/
Elixir Outlaws Podcast — https://elixiroutlaws.com/
Special Guest: Chris Keathley.