FontAwesome, the internet's most popular icon toolkit, uses Elixir behind the scenes. We talk with Rob Madole to learn how they got there and Rob shares insights to what goes on behind-the-scenes. We cover how they teach Elixir to their team, Rob shares helpful resources, tips on giving good code reviews, pairing, how to find great talent, adding in OTP later, and much more!

Show Notes online - https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/006-elixir-at-fontawesome-with-rob-madole/

Elixir Community News

https://2020.elixirconf.com/ - ElixirConf 2020 Tickets On Sale - September 3-4. https://github.com/subvisual/dictator - Dictator 1.0 released. Dictator is an authorization library that uses Plug https://www.iotevolutionworld.com/newsroom/articles/446036-winners-the-2020-iot-evolution-product-the-year.htm - Nerves won IoT Product of the Year for NervesHub https://dalgona.github.io/Serum/ - Serum 1.5 released. Serum is a static site generator written in Elixir

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Interview Resources

https://fontawesome.com/ https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/232193852/font-awesome-5/ - FontAwesome 5 Kickstarter https://twitter.com/robmadole/status/1278055974519988224 - Rob shared heat map graph measured in micro seconds https://fontawesome.com/6 - FontAwesome 6 announced https://cdn.fontawesome.com/ - Old CDN version https://blog.fontawesome.com/introducing-font-awesome-kits/ - FontAwesome Kits product https://www.linkedin.com/in/davegandy/ - Dave Gandy: FontAwesome founder https://www.linkedin.com/company/fort-awesome/ - FontAwesome on LinkedIn https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ - TIOBE index of popular languages https://exercism.io/ https://sentry.io/welcome/ https://prometheus.io/docs/prometheus/latest/getting_started/

https://twitter.com/robmadole - Rob Madole on Twitter https://github.com/robmadole - Rob Madole on GitHub https://twitter.com/fontawesome - FontAwesome Twitter account

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