Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person

Update: 2024-01-16

Description

Erik Person shares how he joined Corvus Insurance as the first engineer building the system from scratch with Elm and Elixir. We talk about onboarding, culture, and growing the team. He exclaims his excitement for the next phase of acquisition by Travelers.

Thanks to our sponsor, Logistically. Email: elmtown@logisticallyinc.com.

Music by Jesse Moore.

Recording date: 2023.12.05

Guest

Erik Person

Show notes

[00:00:22 ] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:52 ] Introducing Erik

[00:01:20 ] Getting started

[00:07:27 ] The flight to Elm

[00:12:43 ] Elm seeds

[00:17:14 ] Why Elm at Corvus?

"The Python Paradox" by Paul Graham
"Make Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman

[00:21:57 ] Hiring & onboarding practices

[00:24:09 ] Scaling

Aaron VonderHaar's elm-format

[00:27:49 ] Static Elm + dynamic Elixir

Luke Westby's elm-http-builder

[00:34:32 ] Programming the plane

[00:38:58 ] Corvus engineering culture

Forbes' list of "America’s Best Startup Employers"

[00:43:59 ] Acquisition

[00:48:34 ] Picks

Erik's picks

"Interesting bugs caught by no-constant-binary-expression" by Jordan Eldredge
"Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning" by Peter Whidden
The Data Warehouse Toolkit by Ralph Kimball and Margy Ross

Jared's pick

Jeroen Engels' elm-review

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Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person

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Guest

Show notes

[00:00:22 ] Sponsored by Logistically

[00:00:52 ] Introducing Erik

[00:01:20 ] Getting started

[00:07:27 ] The flight to Elm

[00:12:43 ] Elm seeds

[00:17:14 ] Why Elm at Corvus?

[00:21:57 ] Hiring & onboarding practices

[00:24:09 ] Scaling

[00:27:49 ] Static Elm + dynamic Elixir

[00:34:32 ] Programming the plane

[00:38:58 ] Corvus engineering culture

[00:43:59 ] Acquisition

[00:48:34 ] Picks

Erik's picks

Jared's pick

Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person

Erik Person, Andrew Lenards, Jared M. Smith

Elm Town 72 – 435 million reasons to love Elm + Elixir with Erik Person