Listen "29: Running Jobs using Oban with Parker Selbert"
Episode Synopsis
We talk with Parker Selbert, the creator of the job processing library Oban. He shares the benefits of using Postgres as the data store over more common choices like Redis. Oban also offers a paid "pro" level and Parker explains how a paid feature set is provided for the OpenSource library. He helps us understand the differences between pro and free as well. We talk about how the BEAM's concurrency and processes enable powerful features in a job processing library that you won't easily find in alternatives. He also shares a glimpse of what's coming in the future for the library and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29)
Elixir Community News
- https://hotwire.dev/ (https://hotwire.dev/) – Ruby on Rails project launched Hotwire, a LiveView-like project for pushing HTML to the client
- https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1341476828314263552 (https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1341476828314263552) – Chris McCord expressed the benefits of the LiveView approach well here.
- https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1342130938021629953 (https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1342130938021629953) – Gleam projects can apply the Hotwire approach as it is backend agnostic
- https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html (https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html) – React JS server rendered components
- https://youtu.be/TQQPAU21ZUw (https://youtu.be/TQQPAU21ZUw) – Video explaining React JS server components
- https://github.com/kentaro/mixtasksupload_hotswap (https://github.com/kentaro/mix_tasks_upload_hotswap) – Tool to speed IoT development iterations
- https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1343822451285716992 (https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1343822451285716992) – Connor Rigby's similar approach
- https://getoban.pro/ (https://getoban.pro/) – Oban Pro website updated
- https://elixirforum.com/t/one-click-phoenix-deployments/36473 (https://elixirforum.com/t/one-click-phoenix-deployments/36473) – Wojtek Mach created an example Phoenix app with one-click deployments to different cloud services
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/phoenix_example (https://github.com/wojtekmach/phoenix_example) – Github project with deployment examples
- https://mazes.angelika.me/ (https://mazes.angelika.me/) – LiveView maze generator created by Angelika Tyborska
- https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes (https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes) – Source code for maze generator
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/sorentwo/oban (https://github.com/sorentwo/oban)
- https://getoban.pro/ (https://getoban.pro/)
- https://dscout.com/ (https://dscout.com/)
- https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro (https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro)
- https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/ (https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/)
- https://elixirforum.com/ (https://elixirforum.com/)
- https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html (https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html)
- https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/ (https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/sorentwo (https://twitter.com/sorentwo) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/sorentwo (https://github.com/sorentwo) – on Github
- https://sorentwo.com/ (https://sorentwo.com/) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/29)
Elixir Community News
- https://hotwire.dev/ (https://hotwire.dev/) – Ruby on Rails project launched Hotwire, a LiveView-like project for pushing HTML to the client
- https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1341476828314263552 (https://twitter.com/chris_mccord/status/1341476828314263552) – Chris McCord expressed the benefits of the LiveView approach well here.
- https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1342130938021629953 (https://twitter.com/louispilfold/status/1342130938021629953) – Gleam projects can apply the Hotwire approach as it is backend agnostic
- https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html (https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html) – React JS server rendered components
- https://youtu.be/TQQPAU21ZUw (https://youtu.be/TQQPAU21ZUw) – Video explaining React JS server components
- https://github.com/kentaro/mixtasksupload_hotswap (https://github.com/kentaro/mix_tasks_upload_hotswap) – Tool to speed IoT development iterations
- https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1343822451285716992 (https://twitter.com/pressy4pie/status/1343822451285716992) – Connor Rigby's similar approach
- https://getoban.pro/ (https://getoban.pro/) – Oban Pro website updated
- https://elixirforum.com/t/one-click-phoenix-deployments/36473 (https://elixirforum.com/t/one-click-phoenix-deployments/36473) – Wojtek Mach created an example Phoenix app with one-click deployments to different cloud services
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/phoenix_example (https://github.com/wojtekmach/phoenix_example) – Github project with deployment examples
- https://mazes.angelika.me/ (https://mazes.angelika.me/) – LiveView maze generator created by Angelika Tyborska
- https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes (https://github.com/angelikatyborska/mazes) – Source code for maze generator
Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir) or email at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Discussion Resources
- https://github.com/sorentwo/oban (https://github.com/sorentwo/oban)
- https://getoban.pro/ (https://getoban.pro/)
- https://dscout.com/ (https://dscout.com/)
- https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro (https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro)
- https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/ (https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/)
- https://elixirforum.com/ (https://elixirforum.com/)
- https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html (https://hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.html)
- https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/ (https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com/)
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/sorentwo (https://twitter.com/sorentwo) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/sorentwo (https://github.com/sorentwo) – on Github
- https://sorentwo.com/ (https://sorentwo.com/) – Blog
Find us online
- Message the show - @ThinkingElixir (https://twitter.com/ThinkingElixir)
- Email the show - [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
- Mark Ericksen - @brainlid (https://twitter.com/brainlid)
- David Bernheisel - @bernheisel (https://twitter.com/bernheisel)
- Cade Ward - @cadebward (https://twitter.com/cadebward)
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