Elixir Reading List - August 2025

This month's Elixir Reading List for August 2025 celebrates a major framework release and performance insights. Phoenix LiveView 1.1 released! marks a significant milestone for real-time web development, bringing performance improvements, enhanced developer experience, and new features that solidify LiveView's position as a premier choice for building interactive applications without JavaScript frameworks. This release represents the culmination of community feedback and production experience from thousands of LiveView deployments.

Performance and architecture patterns take centre stage with explorations of data pipeline design. Why pull-based pipelines are faster examines the architectural differences between push and pull-based data streaming systems, offering insights relevant to Elixir developers building high-throughput data processing pipelines with tools like Broadway and GenStage. The analysis demonstrates how backpressure and consumer-driven flow control can dramatically improve system performance and resource utilization.

Practical configuration guidance rounds out the month's essential reading. Elixir Configuration & Environment variables provides clear guidance on managing application configuration across environments, covering Config module usage, runtime versus compile-time configuration, and best practices for handling secrets and environment-specific settings in production deployments.

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