Learning to code to get a full time job in Elixir is no small feat! Kimberly Johnson shares her journey. We pick out guide posts along the way of her non-traditional path to programming for others who want to follow!

OpenSource, Livebook based, Elixir security training for my team? Holden Oullette works at Podium and is creating this as a community resource. Required security training doesn’t have to suck!

Zach Daniel explains Ash Framework, how 2.0 is the real 1.0, and the philosophy behind it. Surprisingly, it benefits LiveView apps in addition to REST and GraphQL APIs!

Carlos Bolaños shares how his caching library Nebulex solves common problems in new ways. From decorating a function to cache the results to supporting multiple caching backends through adapters!

Thanos Vassilakis explains how Elixir is used at @rbccm. We cover LiveView’s incredible performance, adoption, "scaling teams", and how vendor "body shops" are a limiting factor in Elixir being accepted.

Meet the Wizards Sundi Myint and Owen Bickford and hear what it’s like working at a Software Agency like SmartLogic vs a Product Company. Get to know them better and what they are working on today!

Ecto gets Lively in Livebook because of a SpawnFest team! Generate an ERD in Livebook from Ecto schemas in code? Cool! Visualize a complicated Postgres EXPLAIN result? Yes! And more!

Add value to your Elixir project with Timescale DB! This PostgreSQL extension brings time series tools to your regular database. Dave Lucia shares why it's a smart choice, how to get started, and more.

The buzz around Bumblebee is energetic! Listen to José Valim, Paulo Valente, and Jonatan Kłosko explain and share what this means for the Elixir community! We can easily add advanced AI models to our Phoenix apps for one!

We met up again with Michael Lubas to discuss some lesser known community security resources and helpful tips to get us started with securing our Elixir and Phoenix applications!

Chris Nelson created LiveState to keep some benefits of LiveView but use it on static generated sites! Interesting project that keeps state in Phoenix but takes a different approach for the client!

Philip Brown talks about how he created Prise.com using Elixir, Phoenix, Axon, Nx and LiveView to help people use machine learning to prioritize their tasks spread across multiple systems!

We get a glimpse into the EEF’s Security Working Group with Bram Verburg. We learn about existing resources and get hints for the future. Bram shares some cool security tips and insights as well!

News-only episode covers new overlooked Livebook features, Mint support added to Elixir GRPC, Phoenix Live Storybook gets visual comparisons, LiveView Native progress updates, the Circle CI breach and more!

The Fediverse is a hot topic! Mayel de Boniol explains what it means, what ActivitPub is and more! Mayel also created Bonfire Networks with Elixir and Phoenix as a framework to create federated servers! Lots to unpack!

We share notes on upgrading our apps to Phoenix 1.7.0 and what it was like. We include tips and resources and talk about the backward compatibility of the project and what that means.

News covers the new core Phoenix.Template project, Nx and the coming multiple GPU support, Integrating the Trix WYSIWYG editor, and “Code Code Ship” bringing commercial package support to Elixir and more!

New Phoenix LiveView 0.18.12 release brings “streams” feature and more. Another Protohackers video, AppSignal adds Oban support, Orion library does distributed tracing UI, Jose Valim interview by Exercism, and more!

We talk with Andrea Leopardi, an Elixir core team member, author, and recent Protohackers celebrity! We cover his work on dbg, the networking challenges, his upcoming PragProg book and what new challenge has intrigued him!

Orion is an interesting library created by Thomas Depierre that makes it easy to run distributed tracing in your app on prod! It includes a LiveView UI for visualizing the perf and runs multiple traces concurrently!