58: News and Livebook for Business Intelligence

After covering the news we catch up on what Elixir things we've been thinking about and working on. Mark brings up using Livebook as a Business Intelligence tool for doing analysis of a running application's data. David brings up how to design safe data migrations in Elixir systems, examples from the Rails ecosystem and how he's thinking about that for Elixir. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/58 Elixir Community News https://2021.elixirconf.com/#up-next – ElixirConf talks are being accepted! Speakers not yet fully announced. https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook/pull/453 – Livebook gets "hover contexts". https://github.com/fhunleth/nerves_livebook/releases/tag/v0.2.16 – Nerves Livebook updated release https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lUa7PACV8 – Elixir Roundtable Number 4 https://github.com/CargoSense/dart_sass – Mix wrapper around dart-sass Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com Discussion Resources https://fly.io/blog/better-business-intelligence-in-elixir-with-livebook/ https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/elixir-livebook-connection-to-your-app/#business-intelligence-through-livebook – Fly.io docs for doing BI with Livebook to running apps https://github.com/livebook-dev/livebook – Livebook project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence – Business Intelligence or BI https://www.metabase.com/ – OpenSource BI tool https://rubygems.org/gems/strong_migrations – RubyGem StrongMigrations Guest Information No special guests this time. Find us online Message the show - @ThinkingElixir Email the show - show@thinkingelixir.com Mark Ericksen - @brainlid David Bernheisel - @bernheisel Cade Ward - @cadebward

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