Adam Wathan invited me on his excellent Full Stack Radio podcast to talk about building Changelog.com with Elixir and Phoenix. Topics include:

• How pattern matching works in Elixir and why it’s more powerful than method overloading in other languages
• How Elixir’s pipe operator makes the transition from OO to functional programming more natural
• Why you don’t need to be intimidated by unfamiliar features like GenServers to use Elixir for web app development
• Noticeable differences between working with Rails and Phoenix and what it was like to transition
• How the Phoenix ORM makes n+1 queries impossible
• Why background tasks are a lot easier in Elixir than in an ecosystem like PHP
• What other tools and technology power the Changelog platform
• How the Changelog Phoenix app is deployed

You can listen to the episode right here.

If you like listening to me blather on about software development, also take a listen to Backstage #4 where I do exactly that with fellow-developer, Nick Janetakis. And, since we built our own custom platform, I can even do a shiny embed of that episode for ya! 🙌