110: The End of Localhost Development?

Some people excitedly talk about the “end of localhost development” when developer machines move to the cloud. Presumably this is better because our environments, infrastructure and projects are so complex that they need this additional layer of abstraction just to keep teams productive. Is this our inevitable future? Or is this trying to solve the wrong problem? We talk about what we think this movement is about and how it relates to us. Elixir projects can potentially be much simpler with fewer external dependencies making this move to the cloud less compelling. Join us as we contemplate how Elixir and Phoenix might fare in a world with no “localhost development”. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/110 Elixir Community News https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1549295894721445888 – Explanation thread about how new Kernel.dbg function works. https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1551463778893631488 – New Kernel.dbg/0 prints the current bindings. https://twitter.com/sorentwo/status/1550155422438494211 – Oban v2.13.0 and Oban Pro v0.12.0 were released. https://getoban.pro/docs/pro/changelog.html – Oban Pro changelog https://hexdocs.pm/oban/changelog.html – Oban OSS changelog https://hexdocs.pm/kino/Kino.Process.html – New Kino.Process module added to Kino 0.6.2. https://github.com/elixir-plug/plug/pull/1111 – Plug gets a new “Copy to markdown” button https://twitter.com/MachinesAreUs/status/1549072505423503363 – New tool for automatically detecting cyclic dependencies between modules in Elixir? https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/pull/428 – EctoSQL gets a new pg_advisory_lock configuration option for Postgres users https://elixir-makeup.github.io/makeup_demo/ – Make-up's new demo pages showing off how it highlights code. https://github.com/elixir-makeup/makeup – The makeup project Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected] Discussion Resources https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669762 – HackerNews post that re-ignited this discussion https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost – The HN post which lays out he arguments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk – Jonathan Blow - Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (English only) https://www.laurencegellert.com/2015/08/is-localhost-development-obsolete/ – Discussion dates back to at least 2015 https://twitter.com/MarioWhoWrites/status/1542294811067109376 – It feels like DevOps at the language level https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/105 – Recent interview with Uku Taht at Plausible Analytics. https://hanselminutes.com/847/engineering-stack-overflow-with-roberta-arcoverde – Stack Overflow infrastructure described Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - [email protected] Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward Sponsored By:Fly.io: Fly.io is a great place to deploy your next Phoenix application! Check them out!