Episode 152 - Hire an Elixir Developer! and Chris's Ecto Adventures

# Episode 152 - The joys of Ecto This week it’s a Chris & Desmond episode! We kick things off by hearing all about Desmond’s latest project – Hire an Elixir Developer – a job board to help companies attract Elixir talent that’s launching soon. We dig into how Desmond has been writing his latest project, hear a bit about how he’s using LiveView and how he’s chasing boring technology to get this project done (Phoenix & Elixir). Chris has also been writing lots of code this week (and has kept Elixirin’) – he talks a bit about how Elixir has mostly just been getting out of his way. We then dig into one of our favorite subjects ... Ecto! We describe the joy of named binds, how we split up Ecto queries, and think about composing queries. We then go onto talk about lateral joins and the limits of Ecto preloads. ## Links * Hire an Elixir Developer – https://www.hireanelixirdeveloper.com/ * Absinthe GraphQL – http://absinthe-graphql.org * Ecto Named Binds – https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html#module-named-bindings * Ecto Preloads – https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html?#preload/3 * Ecto update with an atomic increment – https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html#update/3 * Ecto lateral joins – https://hexdocs.pm/ecto/Ecto.Query.html#join/5-joining-with-fragments * Dataloader – https://hexdocs.pm/dataloader/Dataloader.html * Lateral joins in Ecto – https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto/issues/1425 * Relay Connections – https://facebook.github.io/relay/graphql/connections.htm * Absinthe Relay – https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe_relay * Batch loading in Absinthe Relay while support first N – https://elixirforum.com/t/how-to-batch-load-with-absinthe-relay-while-supporting-first-x-and-after-cursor/14918 * CSS Grids – https://gridbyexample.com/examples/ * Brutalist Web Design – https://brutalist-web.design/ * ElixirConf – https://elixirconf.com/2019