116: Jerod Santo - Building the Changelog Platform with Elixir and Phoenix

In this episode of Fullstack Radio I talked to Jared Santo about building the changelog podcasting platform with Elixir and Phoenix. This is Fullstack Radio episode one sixteen. Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Full Stack Radio podcast. I'm your host Adam Wadden and today it's my pleasure to be speaking with someone whose voice might be familiar to you if you're an avid podcast listener, Jared Santo of The Change Log. How's it going, Jared? Hello. It's going very well. Thanks for having me. So, the reason I wanna have you on the show today is, I was a guest on one of the the podcasts on your kind of, like, network of podcasts, that you've been running. And after we kinda did that episode, you kinda mentioned that maybe it'd be fun to have a conversation about how I don't know. When was it? Like, maybe two years ago or something? You guys, rebuilt sort of your entire, like, change log platform, using Elixir and Phoenix. That's right. And, Elixir and Phoenix are really cool and exciting technologies. And you guys were kinda pretty early adopters, I think, in trying to do some some web stuff there. And I thought it'd be really interesting to kinda talk to you about your experiences with that, how that's been going for you, what the learning curve was like, and kinda contrasting it with maybe some of the tools and stuff that you used in the past. So I don't know. How's that sound to you? That sounds really good. Yeah. It was a couple years back. We were previously so the changelog website goes back to Tumblr back when the the the original changelog podcast started in 2009. So pretty much the dawn of GitHub was when it started. Mhmm. And that was Adam, my my business partner Adam as well as Wynn Netherland. I actually started that show. I wasn't part of it from the very beginning, but it was a kind of what it is now. It's a news feed and and a podcast. Now we have a a portfolio podcast, but back then, it was just the one. And it was a Tumble log. And they were on Tumblr for a couple of years, finally, I think in, like, the twenty eleven, twenty twelve range, Adam relaunched the site on WordPress. And, a similar timing, we moved the we moved our hosting over to five by five. We joined the five by five network. Mhmm. And we're on that for a couple of years. And then finally, we had pushed WordPress to its logical conclusion as as people tend to do over time as our needs grew more and more custom. And it was obvious, especially when we're going from one show to multiple shows, that it was time to do something else. So that's where the change.com platform came from. I was, I've been a long time web developer, and most of my stuff …