January 06, 2026

286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review

41 minutes

News includes a compelling story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix and Ash in just two weeks, Credo 1.7.15 with massive performance improvements dropping runtime from 33 to 9 seconds on large codebases, Soothsayer library updates for time series forecasting, Torchx now running on Apple Metal, an EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries monthly, the first ever GleamLang conference announced for 2026, and more! After the news, we take a retrospective look at 2025, reviewing notable events and trends throughout the year.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/286

Elixir Community News

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://wortwildnis.de/ – Urban Dictionary for German colloquial terms created by Jan Wirth

https://github.com/janwirth/wortwildnis – Open source repository for Wortwildnis

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7410405236504248320/ – Jan Wirth's story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix + Ash, delivering a feature-rich application in two weeks with no prior Elixir experience

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3mavexpiexs24 – Tyler Young announcing Credo 1.7.15 release with massive performance improvements

https://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m7435rnflk2a – Tyler Young's PRs that dropped Credo runtime from ~33 seconds to ~9 seconds on a 3500 file codebase

https://github.com/rrrene/credo – Credo GitHub repository

https://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Credo changelog with details on version 1.7.15

https://nitter.net/georgeguimaraes/status/2003450598545563754 – George Guimarães announcing Soothsayer v0.6.1 update

https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/soothsayer – Soothsayer library for time series forecasting in Elixir, inspired by Facebook's Prophet and NeuralProphet

https://nitter.net/polvalente/status/2005467305984045457 – Paulo Valente sharing that Torchx now runs on Apple Metal

https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/1652 – PR by Paulo Valente enabling Torchx to run on Apple Metal

https://erlef.org/blog/sponsorship/case-study-sora-dnsimple – EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries each month

https://nitter.net/TheErlef/status/2005700343725015158 – Announcement of the first ever GleamLang conference

https://gleamgathering.com – Gleam Gathering conference website, February 21, 2026 in Bristol, UK with keynote by Louis Pilfold

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