July 15, 2025

261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?

29 minutes

News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates featuring change tracking in comprehensions by default and TypeScript annotations, José Valim's inspiring DevLabs interview about building authentic tools and fostering healthy ecosystems, Matthew Sinclair's comprehensive post outlining 9 compelling reasons to choose Elixir, Peter Solnica's exciting teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir, Igniter's growing adoption with 45 packages now using it for simplified installation, ElixirConf 2025 US tickets available with ThinkingElixir discount, Figma's S-1 filing revealing their staggering $300,000 daily AWS costs, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/261

Elixir Community News

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https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.1.0-rc.2/changelog.html#v1-1-0-rc-2-2025-07-05 – Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidate with change tracking in comprehensions by default

https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lteubbasjc2g – Steffen's thread about LiveView 1.1.0 RC changes and improvements

Includes Colocated JS hooks and TypeScript type annotations to all public JavaScript APIs

https://x.com/vmelnikova_en/status/1939754121005031881 – DevLabs interview announcement with José Valim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihn2fuc_ueQ – José Valim on feeding desire to learn, healthy Elixir ecosystem and the future of AI tooling

https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsinclair.com/post/3ltfyuekfkc2w – Matthew Sinclair's post about why Elixir is a great choice

https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-why-elixir – \"Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions\" blog post with 9 reasons

https://hex.pm/packages/recon – Collection of functions and scripts to debug Erlang in production.

https://hex.pm/packages/observer_cli – Visualize Erlang/Elixir Nodes On The Command Line

https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3ltf3e7nije24 – Peter Solnica teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir

https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3ltg6dak7fk2f – Zach Daniel shares that Igniter now has 45 packages using it for simplified installation

https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf 2025 US tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off

https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/ – Figma's S-1 filing announcement for going public

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025033742/figma-sx1.htm – Figma's SEC S-1 filing document

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/design-platform-figma-spends-300000-on-aws-daily/ – Figma spends $300,000 daily on AWS services according to S-1 filing

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