News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in applications, Peter Solnica's new inflection library for word transformations, Fly.io announcing Docker Compose compatibility for multi-container deployments, and the full ElixirConf 2025 agenda going live with discount tickets available, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/263
https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memoryhttps://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applicationshttps://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 – How Elixir Powers the BBC From PoC to Production at Scale by Ettore Berardihttps://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/ – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixirhttps://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvementhttps://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFshttps://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ – PDF data extraction library for Elixirhttps://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html – Documentation for pdf_extractor libraryhttps://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverageshttps://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixirhttps://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonXhttps://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamalhttps://kamal-deploy.org/ – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containershttps://github.com/elixirschool/school_house – Elixir School open source repositoryhttps://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applicationshttps://hexdocs.pm/lua/ – Elixir Lua package documentationhttps://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang packagehttps://github.com/rvirding/luerl – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integrationhttps://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Blueskyhttps://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixirhttps://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibilityhttps://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journeyhttps://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 – Guide on using containers with flyctlhttps://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machineshttps://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir gendiff projecthttps://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now livehttps://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% offDo you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [email protected]
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