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This is where we talk about all thing related to the Elixir language, including it's surrounding OTP ecosystem.

about #elixir

Elixir is a dynamic, concurrent, fault-tolerant and functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

Elixir is built upon the battle-tested Erlang VM (BEAM).

José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language.

Here's a mini-documentary done on Elixir!

If you're new to Elixir, here's some resources to get you started:

The official Elixir website

ElixirSchool, a community-driven website to help make Elixir easily accessible!

The amazing books, Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas and also Elixir in Action by Sas̄a Jurić

My personal favourite, Elixir and the OTP, video-based tutorial from Pragmatic Studio. I basically learned my Elixir crafts from here!

Other video resources like ElixirCasts and Alchemist Camp are also great!

If you're into podcast, I'm a big fan of Elixir Talk, they're perfect for your commute so definitely check them out!

If you need even better resources, Elixir community is also on elixirforum.com and we are also very active on the Slack channel over at https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com!

P.S: With courtesy from ElixirForum (probably the biggest Elixir community forum?), you can sometimes get up to 40% off the learning resources! Just try to input elixirforum whenever you try to checkout :)

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Abhishek Sharma

May 17

Phoenix LiveView vs Rails Hotwire: I Built the Same Real-Time App in Both. The Numbers Aren't Close.

#elixir #rails #performance #webdev

6 min read

May 17

You're probably underusing middleware for HTTP response handling

#elixir #tesla #api #observability

8 min read

May 7

Bird Meadow: a multi-agent Active Inference world I'd like the community to poke holes in

#activeinference #elixir #opensource

4 min read

WonderLab

May 6

One Open Source Project a Day (No. 57): Symphony - OpenAI's Official Spec for Scaling AI Agents

#opensource #openai #agents #elixir

4 min read

Tsvetozar Penov

May 1

Remote Elixir Developer Salaries, March-April 2026

#elixir #career #salary #remotework

6 min read

Daniele

Apr 29

Testcontainer(s) for Gleam: yes, without the 's' : what it is, how it works, why it exists

#gleam #docker #containers #elixir

5 min read

Apr 22

When your Phoenix socket has no identity at all (and why that was the right call)

#elixir #webdev #security #webcrypto

2 min read

Mark Thayer for Moss Piglet Corporation

Apr 17

Your Habit Tracker Knows More About You Than Your Therapist. Mine Can’t Read Any of It.

#showdev #security #elixir #privacy

4 min read

Guilherme Yamakawa de Oliveira

May 1

Organizing flash messages in Phoenix

#phoenix #elixir #beginners

4 min read

Guilherme Yamakawa de Oliveira

May 1

Installing Elixir with ASDF

#elixir #beginners #erlang #asdf

3 min read

jsph

Apr 16

SEO and LLM Discoverability for Phoenix Web Apps

#elixir #phoenix #seo #webdev

5 min read

Apr 10

How we built multi-region uptime consensus on the BEAM — zero external dependencies

#elixir #erlang #distributed #devops

5 min read

Artéa

May 12

Why I Built an Elixir ISO 20022 Parser (And why I hate banking standards)

#elixir #fintech #banking #opensource

6 min read

Alessio Battistutta

Apr 8

The Complexity Trap: What Tainter Teaches Us About Agentic Systems

#complexity #architecture #ai #elixir

3 min read

Temitope

May 11

Building a Fault-Tolerant Job Queue: Node.js Producers, Elixir/OTP Consumers

#elixir #node #otp #architecture

13 min read

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