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Elixir Jobs Opportunity Elixir Developer Position Ralabs is hiring for an Elixir developer position. Check it out. Source
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Latest Updates in the Elixir Community

Elixir Language Updates Elixir 1.18 Release Elixir v1.18 is out featuring substantial improvements, including type checking of function calls, Language Server listeners, built-in JSON support, enhancements to ExUnit, and IEx auto-reload. A significant release for the community! Source New SQL Sigil for Ecto Elixir 1.18.2 introduces a new SQL sigil for Ecto, which should enhance querying capabilities and make SQL interactions more seamless. Source Community Events Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2025 Speakers announced and tickets are open for Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2025, taking place on June 2nd! Keynote by Björn Gustavsson covers BEAM's evolution from Erlang to Elixir and Gleam. Source GigCityElixir 2025 Two months until GigCityElixir 2025! Expect great speakers and a wonderful community experience. Remember to get your tickets! Source ...

Exciting Updates from the Elixir Community

Upcoming Events in Elixir Code BEAM Lite Stockholm 2025 Announcement Speakers announced and tickets are open for Code BEAM Lite Stockholm on June 2nd! Keynote by Björn Gustavsson highlights the evolution of the BEAM architecture from Erlang to Elixir and Gleam. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Source Elixir Amsterdam Meetup Join us on March 27th for an insightful meetup hosted by @cigrainger.bsky.social discussing Agentic workflows with LLMs. The meetup is sponsored by Vio.com. Bring your friends and let's dive into Elixir together! Source GigCityElixir 2025 The one and only @maqbool.bsky.social is joining us at GigCityElixir 2025! Ensure you get your tickets and be part of this amazing event that celebrates the Elixir community. Source

Latest Updates in the Elixir Community

Conference Insights CodeBEAM Conference Insights I had a great time at the CodeBEAM conference. The content was high quality and well presented. Here are some of my notes and links. Source Upcoming Meetups Agentic Workflows Meetup Another meetup is coming up on March 27th, where @cigrainger will share his thoughts on Agentic workflows with LLMs. Please share and invite friends. The lovely folks from Vio.com are hosting and sponsoring us. Source Community Announcements GigCityElixir 2025 There are only two months left until GigCityElixir 2025! With great speakers and a wonderful community, it's an event not to be missed! Source Exciting New Releases Elixir Patterns in Print For those who have been holding out for a physical copy of Elixir Patterns, the wait is over! The book is officially available in print on Amazon and looks b...

Exciting Developments in Elixir and AI

Recent Articles and Insights Implementing Parallelization in Elixir Micho highlighted that he has received great feedback on his previous article and has continued his series by implementing parallelization and evaluator-optimizer workflows in Elixir. Source Building AI Agents with Elixir Micho also wrote an article that may be the beginning of a series on using Elixir to build AI agents and workflows. Source Exciting Phoenix LiveView Developments Phoenix LiveView Table Component A new powerful component called LiveTable has been launched that features advanced filtering and sorting, along with CSV and PDF exports. Source Updates in Phoenix LiveView There’s excitement around the nearing release of the highly-anticipated Programming Phoenix LiveView book, prepared for the 1.0 release of Phoenix LiveView. Source

Elixir Community Updates

Tailored Challenges and Learning Tools Personalized Exercism Challenges I found a way to generate individually tailored Exercism challenges, complete with working tests, a quirky backstory, and hints using a coding agent (Cline). Makes learning Elixir a breeze while also reinforcing areas I need more time in. Source New Elixir Tool for Livebook New Elixir tool LivebookTools lets you work on Livebook in your own editor and opens MCP access to cell outputs so Cursor can automatically iterate on the code if the cell has errors. Source Elixir and Phoenix Updates Phoenix Tutorial Series Episode 4 of my Phoenix tutorial series is out now! This one is about tests, introducing ExMachina and ExCoveralls. Source Release of Phoenix Library for Real-Time Sync Released a new Phoenix library for real-time syncing at CodeBEAM yesterday. Check it out if you’re ...