web01.fireside.fm Sat, 25 Apr 2026 04:18:43 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Elixir Outlaws - Episodes Tagged with “Software Design” https://elixiroutlaws.com/tags/software%20design Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:00:00 -0500 Elixir Outlaws is an informal discussion about interesting things happening in Elixir. Our goal is to capture the spirit of a conference hallway discussion in a podcast. en-us episodic The hallway track of the Elixir community Elixir Outlaws Elixir Outlaws is an informal discussion about interesting things happening in Elixir. Our goal is to capture the spirit of a conference hallway discussion in a podcast. no elixir, erlang, BEAM Elixir Outlaws amos@binarynoggin.com Episode 89: The new-new architecture http://elixiroutlaws.com/89 bbb8852c-5bf3-415c-b758-74365b3f2458 Thu, 18 Feb 2021 18:00:00 -0500 Elixir Outlaws full Elixir Outlaws The main topics this week are complexity and software design. 54:00 no Chris skipped his normal pre-podcast prep and is trying to make up for it. Amos wants to know more about what Chris does to prep; a topic which is interesting to literally no one. Quotes are missatributed as the hosts turn to the main topic of the week: What makes for good design. Chris claims to have a specific design sense but has no idea if its a good sense or not. Both he and Amos agree that consistency is important and that software developers should always be working to making the design of a system a little bit better. But, that work also seems hard and its way more fun to play around with Istio or whatever. A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-89-the-new-new-architecture/ elixir, erlang, BEAM Chris skipped his normal pre-podcast prep and is trying to make up for it. Amos wants to know more about what Chris does to prep; a topic which is interesting to literally no one. Quotes are missatributed as the hosts turn to the main topic of the week: What makes for good design.

Chris claims to have a specific design sense but has no idea if its a good sense or not. Both he and Amos agree that consistency is important and that software developers should always be working to making the design of a system a little bit better. But, that work also seems hard and its way more fun to play around with Istio or whatever.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-89-the-new-new-architecture/

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Chris claims to have a specific design sense but has no idea if its a good sense or not. Both he and Amos agree that consistency is important and that software developers should always be working to making the design of a system a little bit better. But, that work also seems hard and its way more fun to play around with Istio or whatever.

A transcript is available for this episode on Binary Noggin's website: https://binarynoggin.com/blog/episode-89-the-new-new-architecture/

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]]> Episode 21: Deconstructing This Mountain of Doom http://elixiroutlaws.com/21 a405f946-858c-4368-8530-a6dbc8c9ed30 Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:00:00 -0400 Elixir Outlaws full Elixir Outlaws Special guest James Edward Gray II joins the hosts this week and brings lots of questions on design and how we think about dependencies. 1:08:12 no This week the hosts are joined by special guest and Friend of The Show :tm: James Edward Gray II. After introducing themselves for the first time in the shows history, James presents several questions for the guests. This leads into a discussion about dependencies, when we should rely on them, and how we should evaluate them. James turns the conversation to a discussion about Anna and Chris's talks at GigCityElixir. Special Guest: James Edward Gray II. elixir, ruby, gigcityelixir This week the hosts are joined by special guest and Friend of The Show :tm: James Edward Gray II. After introducing themselves for the first time in the shows history, James presents several questions for the guests. This leads into a discussion about dependencies, when we should rely on them, and how we should evaluate them. James turns the conversation to a discussion about Anna and Chris's talks at GigCityElixir.

Special Guest: James Edward Gray II.

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]]> This week the hosts are joined by special guest and Friend of The Show :tm: James Edward Gray II. After introducing themselves for the first time in the shows history, James presents several questions for the guests. This leads into a discussion about dependencies, when we should rely on them, and how we should evaluate them. James turns the conversation to a discussion about Anna and Chris's talks at GigCityElixir.

Special Guest: James Edward Gray II.

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]]> Episode 20: The World Famous Sponge Display http://elixiroutlaws.com/20 50781a99-a9dc-4cc3-8578-c8ee3372f4a5 Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:00:00 -0400 Elixir Outlaws full Elixir Outlaws The main topic this week: How do we handle complexity when designing software. 48:34 no This week starts off with a discussion about Amos and Chris’s recent trip to Strangeloop and the great talks they saw there. There’s a brief interlude into airports and the World Famous sponge display in the Chattanooga airport. The main topic this week: How do we handle complexity when designing software. Chris, excited after reading Philosophy of Software Design, gets exceptionally fired up about software design and the tradeoffs that programmers make. The hosts discuss the nature of software developers and the ways that programmer culture influences those decisions. The hosts turn to discussing the recent changes in Ecto which is mostly Chris ranting for 15 minutes because he doesn’t get it (those who dislike rants will want to turn off their podcast players). elixir, Philosophy of Software Design, This week starts off with a discussion about Amos and Chris’s recent trip to Strangeloop and the great talks they saw there. There’s a brief interlude into airports and the World Famous sponge display in the Chattanooga airport.

The main topic this week: How do we handle complexity when designing software. Chris, excited after reading Philosophy of Software Design, gets exceptionally fired up about software design and the tradeoffs that programmers make. The hosts discuss the nature of software developers and the ways that programmer culture influences those decisions.

The hosts turn to discussing the recent changes in Ecto which is mostly Chris ranting for 15 minutes because he doesn’t get it (those who dislike rants will want to turn off their podcast players).

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]]> This week starts off with a discussion about Amos and Chris’s recent trip to Strangeloop and the great talks they saw there. There’s a brief interlude into airports and the World Famous sponge display in the Chattanooga airport.

The main topic this week: How do we handle complexity when designing software. Chris, excited after reading Philosophy of Software Design, gets exceptionally fired up about software design and the tradeoffs that programmers make. The hosts discuss the nature of software developers and the ways that programmer culture influences those decisions.

The hosts turn to discussing the recent changes in Ecto which is mostly Chris ranting for 15 minutes because he doesn’t get it (those who dislike rants will want to turn off their podcast players).

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