Unlocking Agentic Workflows with Oban
Discover how to build robust agentic workflows with cascading workflows, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and dynamic workflow grafting—all with reliable, distributed functions and transactional guarantees.
https://oban.pro/articles/unlocking-agentic-workflows-with-oban-pro
Thinking Elixir 270: Kickstarting the Future of Rebar
Episode 270 of Thinking Elixir. News includes a Kickstarter campaign to fund Rebar4 development with the goal of making it an official part of the OTP build system, Tidewave Web adding React support and OpenRouter integration for accessing multiple LLM models, Phoenix 1.8.1 release fixing AGENTS.md generation issues, ElixirConf US 2025 videos being slowly released on YouTube including keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, an AshFramework security advisory about before_transaction hooks, and more!
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Performing the Google Authenticator computation in Elixir
A step by step implementation from first principles of time-based one time passwords (TOTP) for two-factor authentication (2FA), compatible with Google Authenticator.
https://github.com/svenvc/blog/blob/main/2025-09-15-elixir-google-authenticator.md
Jon Carstens' presentation | NervesConf US 2025
Jon’s presentation is now available! https://youtu.be/SBWS57-TBgY?feature=shared
🚨 Last call for Code BEAM Europe tutorials Nov 4th!
Learn from actual creators of Erlang/Elixir, Ash, Gleam & Nerves. Seats filling fast! https://codebeameurope.com/#training
Thinking Elixir 269: Elixir with LLMs and Expert Arrives
Episode 269 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the release of Expert, the new official Elixir LSP that’s already supported by Zed editor, Tidewave Web getting its first major update with editor integration and notifications, Paulo Valente’s handoff library v0.2.0 for distributed graph execution across BEAM nodes, LiveDebugger v0.4.0 with new inspect mode and improved features, fascinating research showing Elixir performing exceptionally well in LLM code generation benchmarks (scoring highest among all tested languages), the announcement that next ElixirConf US will be in Chicago, and a critical security alert about a new type of developer dependency attack that weaponizes AI CLI tools, and more!
Structs and Embedded Schemas in Elixir: Beyond Maps
Let’s dive into the ins and outs of structs and Ecto schemas: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/09/09/structs-and-embedded-schemas-in-elixir-beyond-maps.html
🎯 MQSummit schedule LIVE!
15+ sessions on RabbitMQ, Pulsar, NATS, MQTT from Microsoft, AWS, Ford & Apache experts. Early bird pricing ends soon! https://mqsummit.com/#schedule
A (live) conversation with Brujo Benavides about Erlang at the SE4FP Warm-up.
Brujo Benavides is an Erlang developer and trainer. He currently works as a Senior Erlang Engineer at Baxter. He has organized events such as SpawnFest and ElixirConf LA. He lives in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain.
Education: Computer Science, University of Buenos Aires (UBA). When? Tuesday, September 9, 2025, 4:00 PM (UTC-3) Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLPJLbqfhq8
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From Python to Erlang and Elixir, Mackenzie Morgan - Esquenta SE4FP
A conversation with Mackenzie Morgan at the SE4FP Warm-up. Mackenzie describes herself like this: “I’m a programmer who writes Elixir and Erlang. Former Ubuntu developer. I enjoy languages, Argentine tango (especially queer tango!), historic costuming, and photography. Washington Spirit & USWNT fan ⚽.” Mackenzie on Mastodon: https://wandering.shop/@maco Link to the video: https://youtube.com/live/ZuA5XwGWnqE
Keynote: Open Source Resilience - Allison Randal | ElixirConf US 2025
The first keynote of @ElixirConf US with @allisonrandal is now live! Discover how resilience helps us adapt, endure, and thrive through constant change https://youtu.be/ZytQCyEJ-w0
Episode 200: belongs_to Associations with Phoenix Forms
🎉 Episode 200 is live!
In it we’ll learn how to set up has_many and belongs_to relationships in Phoenix and then refactor our form to correctly handle the association.
https://elixircasts.io/using-belongs_to-associations-with-phoenix-forms
Thinking Elixir 268: Got your Popcorn here!
Episode 268 of Thinking Elixir. News includes a new library called Lotus and LotusWeb that provides a safe, read-only environment for running SQL analytics queries with organized storage for saved queries. After the news, we had an interview with Mateusz Front about the Popcorn project, which enables Elixir to run in WebAssembly (WASM) in the browser courtesy of AtomVM. We dig into how it works, what it’s capable of doing, and where it could go in the future!
Why We Killed Riak Search, and What We Are Doing Instead
Discover why Riak Search was retired and what’s replacing it! Join Nicholas Adams & Peter Clark to learn about scaling pitfalls, new Filters-based search in OpenRiak KV 3.4, and seamless 3rd-party search integration. https://codebeameurope.com/talks/why-we-killed-riak-search/
An Introduction to Messaging in Valkey
Explore how Valkey goes beyond caching into high-speed messaging, from pub/sub to queues & streams, at MQ Summit 2025 with Kyle Davis & Roberto Luna Rojas. https://mqsummit.com/talks/an-introduction-to-messaging-in-valkey/
LiveView Portal Component (Alchemist's Edition)
In episode 199 we build a sleek, real-time search modal using Phoenix LiveView’s Portal component.
Thinking Elixir 267: Dive into Tidewave Web with José Valim
Episode 267 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the exciting announcement of Tidewave Web, a new AI-powered service that runs locally in your development environment with an AI chat sidebar that can directly interact with and modify your Phoenix and Rails applications. José Valim joins us for a deeper dive into Tidewave as well! We also cover a comprehensive new ElixirLang blog post about interoperability in 2025 that explores all the ways Elixir and BEAM can work with other languages and runtimes, from traditional NIFs and Ports to newer options like AtomVM for microcontrollers, Popcorn for browser deployment, and integrations with Rust, Zig, Python, and C++. Additionally, Livebook Teams has officially launched out of beta with SSO support and enterprise features, Oban v2.20.0 brings job updating capabilities and improved plugin supervision, PhoenixAnalytics v0.4.0 adds 12 new themes and drops the DuckDB requirement, LiveView v1.1.7 introduces a new stream_async function, and more!