Balancing Auditability and Privacy with Crypto-Shredding
Software in regulated industries must comply with: (1) Auditability laws that require tamper-proof, long-term storage of event logs & (2) Privacy laws (GDPR) that require users’ personal data to be erasable on request.
Deleting data conflicts with the need for immutable audit trails — especially across backups and air-gapped storage.
Crypto-shredding is the solution to this dilemma. Instead of deleting data, systems encrypt sensitive information with user-specific, time-scoped keys and later make it unreadable by deleting those keys.
https://remotereason.com/blog/balancing-auditability-and-privacy-with-crypto-shredding
Elixir Survey 2025 is on!
It’s that time of the year again 💜
Your voice helps us understand how Elixir evolves and what challenges or trends define this year. Take a few minutes to share your experience 👉 https://elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition
🗓️ Open until November 14
The Impact of New Privacy Laws on Web Development
⚖️ Key Changes
Transparency in data collection. Developers are now required to provide clear mechanisms for notifying users about what data is being collected and for what purpose. This has led to the appearance of consent banners, pop-up windows with cookie settings, and detailed privacy policies.
Minimization and control. The principle of “collect only what is necessary” has become mandatory. Web applicationsare designed with privacy by design in mind – privacy is built into the product architecture from the very beginning.
Changes in analytics and advertising. Traditional methods of tracking users, such as third-party cookies, are gradually becoming a thing of the past. Developers have to adapt to new tools: server-side tracking, anonymized analytics, contextual advertising, and other ways to obtain metrics without violating user rights.
Secure data storage. Enhanced server security, encryption, regular security audits, and the ability to completely delete data upon user request (the right to be forgotten) are required.
💡 How this affects developers
The role of backend and DevOps specialists responsible for secure data storage is increasing.
The demand for UI/UX design that takes into account the ethical and legal aspects of privacy is growing.
Integration with services that help automate user consent management is necessary.
🚀 What’s next
The future of web development is a balance between personalization and privacy. The companies that will succeed are those that can offer the user a convenient, secure, and transparent digital experience without excessive data collection. https://www.zfort.com/services/web-app-development
Don't miss the MQ Summit keynotes next week.
Sam Newman (Microservices Expert & Author of Building Resilient Distributed Systems) presenting “You Keep Using That Word” David Ware (CTO, IBM MQ) on “The Power of Queues” Two industry leaders. Two perspectives on the future of messaging architecture. Few tickets left - secure your spot now: https://mqsummit.com/
Thinking Elixir 276: Elixir v1.19 Types and Speed
Episode 276 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the major release of Elixir v1.19 with enhanced type checking, broader type inference, and up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, plus the first OpenChain certification bringing more transparency to the BEAM ecosystem. We also cover the Mishka Chelekom Phoenix LiveView component library update for Tailwind 4 support, visual improvements coming to ExDocs admonition blocks, Anthropic’s new ClaudeCode Web that lets you code directly in the browser with GitHub integration, a critical Redis security vulnerability with a perfect 10.0 severity score affecting hundreds of thousands of servers, and more!
Monitor the Performance of Your Ecto for Elixir App with AppSignal
In the second part of our two-part series, we’ll use AppSignal for Elixir to monitor the performance of an Ecto application: https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/10/28/monitor-the-performance-of-your-ecto-for-elixir-app-with-appsignal.html
Building Custom Producers with Elixir's Broadway
A practical guide to building custom Broadway producers in Elixir using GenStage. Understand how demand works, how to prevent your pipeline from stalling, and how to use Process.send_after/3 to keep data flowing between your producer and Broadway consumer.
https://samuelmullen.com/articles/building-custom-producers-with-elixirs-broadway
You don't need an ORM – type-safe SQL in Gleam
Tired of ORMs hiding SQL? @giacomo_cava shows how Squirrel generates type-safe code from raw SQL at Code BEAM Europe. No type-wrangling. No schema drift. Just SQL with full type-safety. Get your ticket to CBE https://codebeameurope.com/talks/you-don-t-need-an-orm/
Thinking Elixir 275: From Slop to Success?
Episode 275 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the release of Elixir v1.19.0-rc.2 with impressive deps compile times and optimized set-theoretic type checking, a timeline update on typed structs arriving by next year, the new “mix help app:phoenix” command for building AI Agent context, gRPC library v0.11.0 with client load balancing, ReqCassette for recording test requests, German Velasco’s video walkthrough of Phoenix’s AGENTS.md file, Brian Cardarella’s insights on the influx of AI-generated codebases needing rescue, Elixir Observer’s major updates with categories and semantic search, Chris McCord’s demonstration of isolated AI coding sandboxes on Fly Machines, NPM’s new security changes for token management, and more!
NATS at Industrial Scale
Schaeffler built a NATS mesh across 100+ plants handling billions of messages daily. Jean-Noel Moyne & Max Arndt are showing how at MQ Summit: → No firewalls to open → 50+ apps on one backbone → Production-proven edge architecture https://mqsummit.com/
Ports and external process wiring
External processes can escape the BEAM, read this blog post for notes about how to get processes to play nice with supervision.
How I switched from Ruby to Elixir by building my own product
I’ve been using Ruby on Rails for over decade but never had a chance to try Elixir. In this article I describe how I learned it by building my own product, my findings and path https://medium.com/@alexsinelnikov/how-i-switched-from-ruby-to-elixir-and-to-learn-it-better-built-a-product-154661c9fb4a
70% of MQ Summit tickets are gone
3 weeks until we bring together the messaging community for a day of real-world case studies and technical deep dives. If you’re working with message brokers, queuing systems, or distributed architectures - don’t wait. Secure your spot https://mqsummit.com/#tickets
A starter Phoenix LiveView project adapted to Fluxon UI
Fluxon UI is a commercial collection of web UI components for Phoenix LiveView projects. Though there is great documentation I missed an example starter project to help in converting to it. I created such a project, named fluxonui_first, to have something that works out of the box and to show the detailed steps that led to it.
A custom URL handler to open Phoenix stacktraces in Neovim
Do you know that in Phoenix you can set PLUG_DEBUGGER env variable to generate links to your text editor in the stack trace. I didn’t until a few months ago, but now I’ve a custom URL handler to open them in nvim 💻
Thinking Elixir 274: Protocols, Permissions, and Performance
Episode 274 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the release of Elixir 1.19.0-rc.1 with OTP 28.1+ compatibility and impressive 2.3x faster dependency compilation, JetBrains adopting the open Agent Client Protocol for AI coding agents, an update on LiveView Native’s uncertain future, major improvements to the MDex Markdown library including streaming support and Quill delta conversion, Curiosum’s comprehensive blog post on their Permit authorization library, Elixir gaining an AT Protocol library called Aether for Bluesky integration, Supabase raising $100 million at a $5 billion valuation while building on Elixir, Ruby community fracturing over gem server ownership controversies, security concerns about AI agents escalating privileges across systems, and more!
Just a few weeks left until Code BEAM Europe (Nov 5–6, Berlin + Online)!
Join 40+ talks from engineers building real-world systems - from integrating LLMs to mastering advanced OTP patterns.Don’t miss out - grab your ticket today! https://codebeameurope.com/#register