Thinking Elixir Podcast

239: Scaling to Unicorn Status

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News includes an impressive case study from Remote showing how they scaled Elixir to support nearly 300 engineers and reach unicorn status, Tailwind CSS 4.0's major release with Phoenix integration in progress, Chris McCord teasing an exciting AI code generator project on Fly.io, the release of Elixir LangChain v0.3.0 with expanded support for multiple AI providers, ElixirConfEU 2025 tickets going on sale in Kraków, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/239

Elixir Community News

  • https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/01/21/remote-elixir-case/ – New case study about Remote, a unicorn company using Elixir as their primary technology with nearly 300 engineers.
  • https://github.com/sasa1977/boundary – Remote uses Saša Jurić's Boundary library to help enforce boundaries in their monolithic codebase.
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/1i77ia9/comment/m8il2ho/ – Discussion about the type spec future in Elixir, with plans to replace Dialyzer typespecs in versions 1.19 and 1.20.
  • https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lgqdugp7zs2b – Ash installer now supports Oban integration via a flag option.
  • https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4 – Tailwind CSS 4.0 released with major changes including moving theme configuration to CSS variables.
  • https://tailwindcss.com/docs/upgrade-guide – Comprehensive upgrade guide for Tailwind CSS v4.
  • https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/5990 – WIP PR to support Tailwind v4 in Phoenix.
  • https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3lggmuk4dis2x – Zach Daniel shares how Tailwind v4 changes will improve igniter's utility configuration capabilities.
  • https://github.com/brainlid/langchain – Elixir LangChain v0.3.0 released with expanded support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Llama, and more.
  • https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1880377175200669770 – Chris McCord teases new Fly.io AI code generator project with IDE/terminal integration.
  • https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1880392153924530376 – Demo video of Chris McCord's AI-integrated editor creating a multiplayer Phoenix LiveView app.
  • https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConfEU 2025 tickets on sale, happening May 15-16 in Kraków Poland & Virtual.

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