Arthi Radhakrishnan's guest appearances

Arthi Radhakrishnan

Elixir Wizards

Chris Bell

Angel Jose

Dave Thomas

Toran Billups

Cassidy Williams

Chris Miller

Dan Lindeman

Jessica Kerr

Devon Estes

José Valim

Chris McCord

Francesco Cesarini

Sean Lewis

Jim Freeze

Brooklyn Zelenka

OwlTail

This week we welcome Arthi Radhakrishnan back to the show to discuss how Elixir and her career more broadly have shaped her perspectives on learning. Arthi first got into programming as a child growing up in the Bay Area, constantly exposed to tech and tech culture. She remembers building websites using GeoCities in high school and learning about data structures and OOP in Java while in college before transitioning to Elixir during her current position as a backend engineer at Community. We hear about what made her learning so enjoyable, the biggest paradigm shifts she needed to make, and she talks about the value of mentorship, pair programming, and working at a company that encourages learning on the job. In today’s show, we also explore a realization that Arthi has come to at the end of her first decade as a software engineer: that effective learning requires a big dose of self-compassion. So, for all this and more, be sure to tune in today! Key Points From This Episode:  Introducing Arthi and the work she does as a backend engineer for Community. What it was like growing up in the Bay Area and how Arthi got into programming. Going from building websites with GeoCities in high school to building a compiler in college. The big role that Java and OOP played in Arthi’s experience of programming fundamentals. Arthi’s experience of learning Elixir and having to shift away from an OOP paradigm. Where Arthi is in her journey of learning Elixir and why she enjoys it so much. How compelling it is to learn on the job and the value of companies that allow for this. The impact that company culture has on job experiences and career trajectories. Summer internships Arthi did in college and how they shaped her career goals. Finding time to do personal learning and why Advent of Code is so helpful. Why setting low expectations for yourself is a helpful paradigm for learning. Exercising self-compassion while learning and how Arthi’s learning approach has evolved. Why Arthi is so grateful that she has gotten to learn Elixir at Community specifically. What good mentorship looks like to Arthi and why she loves pair programming. How learning Elixir and the past 10 years have shaped Arthi’s sense of her needs. Arthi’s thoughts on how Elixir will evolve in the next 10 years.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Arthi Radhakrishnan — https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/  Community — https://www.community.com/ Advent of Code — https://adventofcode.com/ SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/  Audience Survey -- https://smr.tl/surveySpecial Guest: Arthi Radhakrishnan.

This week we welcome Arthi Radhakrishnan back to the show to discuss how Elixir and her career more broadly have shaped her perspectives on learning. Arthi first got into programming as a child growing up in the Bay Area, constantly exposed to tech and tech culture. She remembers building websites using GeoCities in high school and learning about data structures and OOP in Java while in college before transitioning to Elixir during her current position as a backend engineer at Community. We hear about what made her learning so enjoyable, the biggest paradigm shifts she needed to make, and she talks about the value of mentorship, pair programming, and working at a company that encourages learning on the job. In today’s show, we also explore a realization that Arthi has come to at the end of her first decade as a software engineer: that effective learning requires a big dose of self-compassion. So, for all this and more, be sure to tune in today! Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>Introducing Arthi and the work she does as a backend engineer for Community.</li> <li>What it was like growing up in the Bay Area and how Arthi got into programming.</li> <li>Going from building websites with GeoCities in high school to building a compiler in college.</li> <li>The big role that Java and OOP played in Arthi’s experience of programming fundamentals.</li> <li>Arthi’s experience of learning Elixir and having to shift away from an OOP paradigm.</li> <li>Where Arthi is in her journey of learning Elixir and why she enjoys it so much.</li> <li>How compelling it is to learn on the job and the value of companies that allow for this.</li> <li>The impact that company culture has on job experiences and career trajectories.</li> <li>Summer internships Arthi did in college and how they shaped her career goals.</li> <li>Finding time to do personal learning and why Advent of Code is so helpful.</li> <li>Why setting low expectations for yourself is a helpful paradigm for learning.</li> <li>Exercising self-compassion while learning and how Arthi’s learning approach has evolved.</li> <li>Why Arthi is so grateful that she has gotten to learn Elixir at Community specifically.</li> <li>What good mentorship looks like to Arthi and why she loves pair programming.</li> <li>How learning Elixir and the past 10 years have shaped Arthi’s sense of her needs.</li> <li>Arthi’s thoughts on how Elixir will evolve in the next 10 years.</li> </ul> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: Arthi Radhakrishnan — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/</a> Community — <a href="https://www.community.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.community.com/</a> Advent of Code — <a href="https://adventofcode.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://adventofcode.com/</a> SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Audience Survey -- <a href="https://smr.tl/survey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smr.tl/survey</a>Special Guest: Arthi Radhakrishnan.

Arthi Radhakrishnan on the Value of Collaborative Learning for Software Engineers

Matt Nowack

Jake Heinz

In this episode we continue our conversation about adopting Elixir, this time with Matt Nowack and Jake Heinz from Discord, hearing them get into the features of Elixir that make it a great fit for building a real-time chat infrastructure system! We also invite Arthi Radhakrishnan from community.com for our mini-interview in the last chunk of the episode. Our chat begins with Jake and Matt telling Elixir developers exactly why they should not use Mnesia. They subsequently dive into their journeys in programming and the process of learning Elixir after joining Discord. They share a few aha-moments as well as challenging projects that asked them to get their heads around some of the more powerful features of Elixir, highlighting a way they used immutability for a project that asked them to efficiently calculate deltas for large member list updates. From there we get into the culture around onboarding new devs at Discord, the company’s popular open-source Elixir contributions, and some brags about the high performance of features of Discord built in Elixir. Wrapping up with Jake and Matt, we hear their suggestions for teams and devs hoping to adopt Elixir, where they strongly advise on learning OTP as well as Elixir’s standard library. After that, it’s time for our chat with Arthi, where we hear about her programming journey, how Elixir is being put to use at Community.com, how the company supports new devs learning Elixir, and more! Key Points From This Episode:  Our guests’ thoughts on why Elixir developers shouldn’t use the database driver Mnesia. How Jake and Matt got into programming and learned Elixir after joining Discord. The history of the use of Elixir at Discord and some of the projects Jake helped build since. The nuts and bolts of OTP; Jake’s experiences learning it along with Elixir at Discord. Different projects Matt worked on after joining Discord and how they helped him learn Elixir. Aha moments of learning Elixir; features of the language that acted as force multipliers in the development of different Discord projects. Processes at Discord for helping new developers learn Elixir. Open-source contributions from Discord to the Elixir community and the culture around this at Discord. Issues around logging and memory allocation in Elixir and what our guests think could change. The sheer power Elixir brought to the Discord project allowing rapid scale with a small team. Jake weighs in on the strengths of Python, Rust and Elixir, as well as BEAM processes versus Goroutines. Discord as a native Electron app and whether we will see it written in Rust. Advice regarding adopting Elixir about the power of OTP and the standard library. Introducing Arthi Radhakrishnan for our mini-interview at the end of the show. Previous languages Arthi worked in and how she learned Elixir after joining community.com. The fan chat service offered at community.com and some famous users. Features of the community.com architecture built in Elixir. The size of the team, the culture of hiring Elixir devs, and Arthi’s onboarding process at Community.com.  Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:  SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ Matt Nowack on GitHub — https://github.com/ihumanable Mat Nowack on Twitter — https://twitter.com/ihumanable?lang=en Jake Heinz on GitHub — https://github.com/jhgg Apply for a Position at Discord — https://discord.com/jobs Stanislav Vishnevskiy on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/svishnevskiy/ ZenMonitor — https://github.com/discord/zen_monitor SortedSet Nif — https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif The BEAM Book — https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook Semaphore — https://github.com/discord/semaphore ExHashRing — https://github.com/discord/ex_hash_ring erts_alloc Documentation — https://erlang.org/doc/man/erts_alloc.html Arthi Radhakrishnan on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/ Community.com Andrea Leopardi on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/anleopardi/?originalSubdomain=itSpecial Guests: Jake Heinz and Matt Nowack.

In this episode we continue our conversation about adopting Elixir, this time with Matt Nowack and Jake Heinz from Discord, hearing them get into the features of Elixir that make it a great fit for building a real-time chat infrastructure system! We also invite Arthi Radhakrishnan from <a href="http://community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">community.com</a> for our mini-interview in the last chunk of the episode. Our chat begins with Jake and Matt telling Elixir developers exactly why they should not use Mnesia. They subsequently dive into their journeys in programming and the process of learning Elixir after joining Discord. They share a few aha-moments as well as challenging projects that asked them to get their heads around some of the more powerful features of Elixir, highlighting a way they used immutability for a project that asked them to efficiently calculate deltas for large member list updates. From there we get into the culture around onboarding new devs at Discord, the company’s popular open-source Elixir contributions, and some brags about the high performance of features of Discord built in Elixir. Wrapping up with Jake and Matt, we hear their suggestions for teams and devs hoping to adopt Elixir, where they strongly advise on learning OTP as well as Elixir’s standard library. After that, it’s time for our chat with Arthi, where we hear about her programming journey, how Elixir is being put to use at <a href="http://Community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community.com</a>, how the company supports new devs learning Elixir, and more! Key Points From This Episode: <ul> <li>Our guests’ thoughts on why Elixir developers shouldn’t use the database driver Mnesia.</li> <li>How Jake and Matt got into programming and learned Elixir after joining Discord.</li> <li>The history of the use of Elixir at Discord and some of the projects Jake helped build since.</li> <li>The nuts and bolts of OTP; Jake’s experiences learning it along with Elixir at Discord.</li> <li>Different projects Matt worked on after joining Discord and how they helped him learn Elixir.</li> <li>Aha moments of learning Elixir; features of the language that acted as force multipliers in the development of different Discord projects.</li> <li>Processes at Discord for helping new developers learn Elixir.</li> <li>Open-source contributions from Discord to the Elixir community and the culture around this at Discord.</li> <li>Issues around logging and memory allocation in Elixir and what our guests think could change.</li> <li>The sheer power Elixir brought to the Discord project allowing rapid scale with a small team.</li> <li>Jake weighs in on the strengths of Python, Rust and Elixir, as well as BEAM processes versus Goroutines.</li> <li>Discord as a native Electron app and whether we will see it written in Rust.</li> <li>Advice regarding adopting Elixir about the power of OTP and the standard library.</li> <li>Introducing Arthi Radhakrishnan for our mini-interview at the end of the show.</li> <li>Previous languages Arthi worked in and how she learned Elixir after joining <a href="http://community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">community.com</a>.</li> <li>The fan chat service offered at <a href="http://community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">community.com</a> and some famous users.</li> <li>Features of the <a href="http://community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">community.com</a> architecture built in Elixir.</li> <li>The size of the team, the culture of hiring Elixir devs, and Arthi’s onboarding process at <a href="http://Community.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community.com</a>.</li> <li> Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:</li> </ul> SmartLogic — <a href="https://smartlogic.io/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://smartlogic.io/</a> Matt Nowack on GitHub — <a href="https://github.com/ihumanable" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/ihumanable</a> Mat Nowack on Twitter — <a href="https://twitter.com/ihumanable?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ihumanable?lang=en</a> Jake Heinz on GitHub — <a href="https://github.com/jhgg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/jhgg</a> Apply for a Position at Discord — <a href="https://discord.com/jobs" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://discord.com/jobs</a> Stanislav Vishnevskiy on LinkedIn — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/svishnevskiy/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/svishnevskiy/</a> ZenMonitor — <a href="https://github.com/discord/zen_monitor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/discord/zen_monitor</a> SortedSet Nif — <a href="https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/discord/sorted_set_nif</a> The BEAM Book — <a href="https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/happi/theBeamBook</a> Semaphore — <a href="https://github.com/discord/semaphore" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/discord/semaphore</a> ExHashRing — <a href="https://github.com/discord/ex_hash_ring" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://github.com/discord/ex_hash_ring</a> erts_alloc Documentation — <a href="https://erlang.org/doc/man/erts_alloc.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://erlang.org/doc/man/erts_alloc.html</a> Arthi Radhakrishnan on LinkedIn — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthiradhakrishnan/</a> <a href="https://www.community.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Community.com</a> Andrea Leopardi on LinkedIn — <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/anleopardi/?originalSubdomain=it" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/anleopardi/?originalSubdomain=it</a>Special Guests: Jake Heinz and Matt Nowack.

Matt Nowack and Jake Heinz on Elixir and Discord; Bonus: Arthi Radhakrishnan, Community.com