Listen "43: Membrane with Marcin Lewandowski"
Episode Synopsis
We talk with Marcin Lewandowski about Membrane Framework. We learn what it is, the project's goals, how people are using it and how it can solve the speed-to-market problem when streaming multimedia. We cover WebRTC, radio, industry challenges, why you want to deploy it to your own infrastructure, why startups fail and much more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/43 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/43)
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1377354990969233411 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1377354990969233411) – Jose Valim said they are planning two big announcements related to Nx this April. One is Livebook
- https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/04/02/marketing-and-sales-intelligence-with-elixir-at-pepsico/ (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/04/02/marketing-and-sales-intelligence-with-elixir-at-pepsico/) – Elixir PepsiCo case study
- https://github.com/pepsico-ecommerce/snowflex (https://github.com/pepsico-ecommerce/snowflex)
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.0-rc.0 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.0-rc.0) – Elixir 1.12-rc.0
- https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1377558916746334210 (https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1377558916746334210) – Wojtek Mach is working on a new HTTP library based on the Finch library.
- https://leanpub.com/create-a-cryptocurrency-trading-bot-in-elixir (https://leanpub.com/create-a-cryptocurrency-trading-bot-in-elixir) – A "pay what you want" Elixir book called "Create a cryptocurrency trading bot in Elixir" by Kamil Skowron
- https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html (https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html) – Oban had a big release. v2.6 landed with a number of changes.
- https://github.com/nerves-project/nervessystembr/releases/tag/v1.15.0 (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/releases/tag/v1.15.0) – Nerves Buildroot version released v1.15
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2) – Peer Stritzinger has the GRiSP 2 board up for preorder with Nerves support
- https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1376897017545420805 (https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1376897017545420805) – The asdf will install Erlang from precompiled binaries (much faster) instead of source on Mac
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://www.membraneframework.org/ (https://www.membraneframework.org/) – MembraneFramework
- https://binarynoggin.com/blog/membrane-phoenix-nerves/ (https://binarynoggin.com/blog/membrane-phoenix-nerves/) – Connor Rigby's article about Membrane with Nerves
- https://swmansion.com/ (https://swmansion.com/) – Software Mansion website
- https://meet.jit.si/ (https://meet.jit.si/)
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
- https://imagemagick.org/index.php (https://imagemagick.org/index.php)
- https://webrtc.org/ (https://webrtc.org/)
- https://membraneframework.org/guide/v0.6/introduction.html (https://membraneframework.org/guide/v0.6/introduction.html)
- https://discord.gg/nwnfVSY (https://discord.gg/nwnfVSY) – Membrane Discord community
- https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane (https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane) – Membrane on Twitter
- [email protected]
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/mspanc (https://twitter.com/mspanc) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/mspanc (https://github.com/mspanc) – on Github
- [email protected]
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/43 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/43)
Elixir Community News
- https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1377354990969233411 (https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1377354990969233411) – Jose Valim said they are planning two big announcements related to Nx this April. One is Livebook
- https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/04/02/marketing-and-sales-intelligence-with-elixir-at-pepsico/ (https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2021/04/02/marketing-and-sales-intelligence-with-elixir-at-pepsico/) – Elixir PepsiCo case study
- https://github.com/pepsico-ecommerce/snowflex (https://github.com/pepsico-ecommerce/snowflex)
- https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.0-rc.0 (https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.12.0-rc.0) – Elixir 1.12-rc.0
- https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1377558916746334210 (https://twitter.com/wojtekmach/status/1377558916746334210) – Wojtek Mach is working on a new HTTP library based on the Finch library.
- https://leanpub.com/create-a-cryptocurrency-trading-bot-in-elixir (https://leanpub.com/create-a-cryptocurrency-trading-bot-in-elixir) – A "pay what you want" Elixir book called "Create a cryptocurrency trading bot in Elixir" by Kamil Skowron
- https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html (https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html) – Oban had a big release. v2.6 landed with a number of changes.
- https://github.com/nerves-project/nervessystembr/releases/tag/v1.15.0 (https://github.com/nerves-project/nerves_system_br/releases/tag/v1.15.0) – Nerves Buildroot version released v1.15
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2 (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peerstritzinger/grisp-2) – Peer Stritzinger has the GRiSP 2 board up for preorder with Nerves support
- https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1376897017545420805 (https://twitter.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1376897017545420805) – The asdf will install Erlang from precompiled binaries (much faster) instead of source on Mac
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://www.membraneframework.org/ (https://www.membraneframework.org/) – MembraneFramework
- https://binarynoggin.com/blog/membrane-phoenix-nerves/ (https://binarynoggin.com/blog/membrane-phoenix-nerves/) – Connor Rigby's article about Membrane with Nerves
- https://swmansion.com/ (https://swmansion.com/) – Software Mansion website
- https://meet.jit.si/ (https://meet.jit.si/)
- https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/ (https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/)
- https://imagemagick.org/index.php (https://imagemagick.org/index.php)
- https://webrtc.org/ (https://webrtc.org/)
- https://membraneframework.org/guide/v0.6/introduction.html (https://membraneframework.org/guide/v0.6/introduction.html)
- https://discord.gg/nwnfVSY (https://discord.gg/nwnfVSY) – Membrane Discord community
- https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane (https://twitter.com/ElixirMembrane) – Membrane on Twitter
- [email protected]
Guest Information
- https://twitter.com/mspanc (https://twitter.com/mspanc) – on Twitter
- https://github.com/mspanc (https://github.com/mspanc) – on Github
- [email protected]
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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