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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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3-out-of-5-hats Women in Elixir - Lorena Mireles | Erlang Solutions Webinar: Lorena Mireles discusses the Women In BEAM 2024 survey results, focusing on the challenges and achievements faced by women in the technology domain. The webinar presents an in-depth exploration of women’s experiences, highlighting key trends and areas for improvement in the tech industry.

#WomenInTech #Elixir #Coding #TechTrends #Webinar

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4-out-of-5-hats Keynote: Designing LLM Native systems - Sean Moriarity | Code BEAM America 2025: In this keynote from Code BEAM America 2025, Sean Moriarity focuses on the design of systems that are natively compatible with large language models (LLMs). Moriarity discusses how LLMs have become incredibly powerful tools in modern technology and outlines best practices for integrating them into various systems. This talk emphasises the transformative impact of LLMs and provides insights into effectively leveraging these models in tech development.

#LLMSystems #TechIntegration #AIInnovation #CodeBEAM2025 #SystemDesign

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3-out-of-5-hats TextParser: Extract and validate structured tokens from text: TextParser is an Elixir library that extracts and validates structured tokens from text, including URLs, hashtags, and mentions. It offers built-in token types and supports custom parsers with specific validation rules. Originally developed for processing tags, mentions, and URLs in the Bluesky platform, it is now available as a standalone package.

#Elixir #TextParsing #OpenSource #Bluesky #TokenExtraction

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3-out-of-5-hats DaisyUI Components for Phoenix LiveView: The daisy_ui_components library integrates DaisyUI components into Phoenix LiveView applications, offering styled replacements for Phoenix’s default UI components. It supports LiveView 1.0 and provides a range of components, including buttons, modals, tables, alerts, and forms. Installation involves adding the dependency to mix.exs, installing DaisyUI via npm, and configuring Tailwind and Phoenix to include the components. The project includes a Storybook for component previews and is licensed under Apache 2.0.

#Elixir #PhoenixLiveView #DaisyUI #TailwindCSS #UIComponents

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3-out-of-5-hats Phoenix Sync: Real-time local-to-cloud data synchronisation: Phoenix Sync integrates ElectricSQL’s distributed store with Ecto and Phoenix to enable local-to-cloud data synchronisation in real time. It uses Phoenix channels and plugs into Postgres to seamlessly reconcile and persist updates.

#Elixir #Phoenix #ElectricSQL #Sync #Realtime

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4-out-of-5-hats Exploring NodeJS vs Elixir: An In-Depth Technical Dive: Dylan Moore, an experienced NodeJS developer, shares his insights transitioning to Elixir, highlighting Elixir’s superior concurrency and fault tolerance compared to NodeJS. Moore discusses various technical advantages of Elixir, including its ability to handle parallel tasks efficiently and its robust fault-tolerant design through the actor model, offering a detailed comparison with NodeJS’s limitations. This exploration underscores the financial and operational benefits of using Elixir for scalable applications.

#NodeJS #Elixir #Concurrency #TechBlog #Scalability

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QFM058: Elixir Reading List March 2025

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