Episodes 206
Avg. Duration 44m
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Apple Rating 4.9 (22)
Since Feb 2019
Latest Episode Jun 2026

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Elixir Wizards is an interview-style podcast from SmartLogic featuring conversations with developers, engineers, and industry leaders about the Elixir programming language and the broader software development landscape. Each episode explores how modern systems are built, from distributed architectures and infrastructure to developer workflows, security, and emerging technologies like AI. While rooted in the Elixir ecosystem, the show often branches out to compare approaches across languages, platforms, and disciplines. Whether you’re working in Elixir or just interested in how software is evolving, Elixir Wizards offers practical insights and thoughtful perspectives from the people building today’s systems.

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S15 Curiosity, Courage, and the Human Side of Software with Ellyse Cedeno

Jun 11, 2026 1h Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond are joined by Ellyse Cedeno, founder of Heuristic Salvo and a software engineer and product leader with more than 25 years of…

S15 The Missing GitHub Status Page with Marek Šuppa

Jun 04, 2026 41m Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, hosts Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond sit down with Marek Šuppa, creator of the Missing GitHub Status page, a project that reconstructs GitHub's historical uptime…

S15 The State of Code Quality with Saša Jurić

May 28, 2026 55m Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, hosts Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond sit down with Saša Jurić, Elixir mentor and author of Elixir in Action, to discuss software craftsmanship in the age of AI. As…

S15 Cloud Fragility & Distributed Systems with Somtochi Onyekwere

May 21, 2026 46m Transcript

In Elixir Wizards S15E04, Charles Suggs and Emma Whamond are joined by Somtochi Onyekwere, a software engineer at Fly.io and contributor to the Corrosion distributed database project, to talk about…

S15 The State of Hiring and Jobs in Elixir with Greg Medland

May 14, 2026 50m Transcript

In Season 15 episode 3, Charles Suggs sits down with Greg Medland, aka “The Elixir Fixer,” to talk about the current state of hiring and the software jobs market in 2026.   Greg shares what he’s…

S15 Supervised State Replication in Elixir with Micah Cooper

May 07, 2026 47m Transcript

In Season 15 episode 2, Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs chat with Micah Cooper to talk about distributed systems, data replication, and what it actually looks like to build these ideas…

S15 The State of Security in Elixir with Holden Oullette

Apr 30, 2026 41m Transcript

In the Elixir Wizards season 15 premiere, host Charles Suggs is joined by Holden Oullette, Senior Security Software Engineer at Netflix and maintainer of Sobelow, to talk about how security is…

S14 Enter the Elixirverse: Season 14 Wrap-Up

Aug 28, 2025 33m Transcript

Today, the Elixir Wizards wrap up Season 14 “Enter the Elixirverse.” Dan, Charles, and Sundi look back at some common themes: Elixir plays well with others, bridges easily to access languages and…

S14 Elixir DevOps & Interoperability with Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs

Aug 14, 2025 47m Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, host Sundi Myint chats with SmartLogic engineers and fellow Wizards Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs about the practical tooling that surrounds Elixir in a consultancy…

S14 Vibe Coding the LoopedIn Crochet App with Kimberly Erni & Pei Pei Wang

Aug 07, 2025 39m Transcript

Today, co-founders Kimberly Erni and Pei Pei Wang join the Elixir Wizards to discuss their crochet app, LoopedIn. Recognizing a gap in the market for a more user-friendly and interactive crochet…

S14 Python in Elixir Apps with Victor Björklund

Jul 31, 2025 35m Transcript

In this episode, Elixir Wizard Charles Suggs sits down with Victor Björklund to map out the landscape of Python integration in Elixir applications. From HTTP APIs and external services to embedded…

S14 Explorer: Data Frames in Elixir with Chris Grainger

Jul 24, 2025 42m Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Charles Suggs sits down with Chris Grainger, co-founder and CTO of Amplified and creator of the Explorer library. Chris explains how Explorer brings the familiar…

S14 Nix for Elixir Apps with Norbert (NobbZ) Melzer

Jul 17, 2025 41m Transcript

In this episode of Elixir Wizards, Dan Ivovich and Charles Suggs sit down with Norbert “NobbZ” Melzer to discuss how Nix enables reproducible builds, consistent development environments, and reliable…

S14 Set Theoretic Types in Elixir with José Valim

Jul 10, 2025 45m Transcript

Elixir creator José Valim returns to the podcast to unpack the latest developments in Elixir’s set-theoretic type system and how it is slotting into existing code without requiring annotations. We…

S14 SDUI at Scale: GraphQL & Elixir at Cars.com with Zack Kayser

Jul 03, 2025 49m Transcript

Zack Kayser, Staff Software Engineer at cars.com, joins Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs to discuss how Cars.com adopted a server-driven UI (SDUI) architecture powered by Elixir and…

S14 Rustler: Bridging Elixir and Rust with Sonny Scroggin

Jun 26, 2025 48m Transcript

Rustler Core Team Member Sonny Scroggin joins Elixir Wizards Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs. Rustler serves as a bridge to write Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) in Rust that can be called from…

S14 Nx and Machine Learning in Elixir with Sean Moriarity

Jun 19, 2025 44m Transcript

Today on Elixir Wizards, hosts Sundi Myint and Charles Suggs catch up with Sean Moriarity, co-creator of the Nx project and author of Machine Learning in Elixir. Sean reflects on his transition from…

S14 LangChain: LLM Integration for Elixir Apps with Mark Ericksen

Jun 12, 2025 38m Transcript

Mark Ericksen, creator of the Elixir LangChain framework, joins the Elixir Wizards to talk about LLM integration in Elixir apps. He explains how LangChain abstracts away the quirks of different AI…

S14 Blue Heron: Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) for Elixir & Nerves with Connor Rigby

Jun 05, 2025 46m Transcript

Connor Rigby joins the Elixir Wizards to talk about Blue Heron BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) support for Elixir apps. Blue Heron implements the BLE specs in pure Elixir, leveraging binary pattern…

S14 Zigler: Zig NIFs for Elixir with Isaac Yonemoto

May 29, 2025 43m Transcript

In the Season 14 premiere, hosts Dan Ivovich and Sundi Myint chat with Isaac Yonemoto, creator of the Zigler library, to explore how Zigler brings Zig’s performance and safety to Elixir through…

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