QFM058: Elixir Reading List - March 2025

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The March edition of the Elixir Reading List starts with Women in Elixir - Lorena Mireles | Erlang Solutions Webinar, which presents the findings of the Women In BEAM 2024 survey. Mireles offers a data-informed view of gender dynamics within the Elixir and broader BEAM communities, highlighting both persistent barriers and areas of progress. The webinar provides context for understanding how community evolution intersects with the technical direction of the ecosystem.

Community-driven innovation is also evident in two libraries focused on UI development and parsing. github.com/phcurado/daisy_ui_components introduces a structured approach to building Phoenix LiveView interfaces using DaisyUI and TailwindCSS. It offers styled component primitives that align with LiveView 1.0 conventions and includes a Storybook for usage patterns. Meanwhile, github.com/solnic/text_parser addresses the challenge of extracting structured tokens from freeform text—such as hashtags, mentions, and URLs—by providing a composable parsing framework originally developed for the Bluesky platform.

Distributed system design and synchronisation feature in github.com/electric-sql/phoenix_sync, which integrates Phoenix and Ecto with ElectricSQL's distributed data layer. The library demonstrates how Phoenix channels can serve as a foundation for real-time reconciliation between local and cloud data stores, positioning Elixir within emerging sync-first architecture patterns.

Two articles this month look outward to the wider technological landscape and explore Elixir's position within it. Exploring NodeJS vs Elixir: An In-Depth Technical Dive captures one developer's transition from JavaScript to Elixir, focusing on concurrency, operational robustness, and cost efficiency. The post captures a growing sentiment that Elixir's end-to-end tech stack and its fault-tolerance model offers real, practical advantages for backend systems under load.

Finally, Keynote: Designing LLM Native systems - Sean Moriarity | Code BEAM America 2025 discusses how foundational model AI is influencing system architecture. Moriarity outlines patterns for integrating large language models into Elixir-based systems, arguing for designs that treat LLMs as core components rather than optional extensions. The talk positions Elixir as a capable platform for orchestrating LLM-based workflows, highlighting its suitability for AI-native systems.

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