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This is where we talk about all thing related to the Elixir language, including it's surrounding OTP ecosystem.

about #elixir

Elixir is a dynamic, concurrent, fault-tolerant and functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications.

Elixir is built upon the battle-tested Erlang VM (BEAM).

José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language.

Here's a mini-documentary done on Elixir!

If you're new to Elixir, here's some resources to get you started:

The official Elixir website

ElixirSchool, a community-driven website to help make Elixir easily accessible!

The amazing books, Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas and also Elixir in Action by Sas̄a Jurić

My personal favourite, Elixir and the OTP, video-based tutorial from Pragmatic Studio. I basically learned my Elixir crafts from here!

Other video resources like ElixirCasts and Alchemist Camp are also great!

If you're into podcast, I'm a big fan of Elixir Talk, they're perfect for your commute so definitely check them out!

If you need even better resources, Elixir community is also on elixirforum.com and we are also very active on the Slack channel over at https://elixir-slackin.herokuapp.com!

P.S: With courtesy from ElixirForum (probably the biggest Elixir community forum?), you can sometimes get up to 40% off the learning resources! Just try to input elixirforum whenever you try to checkout :)

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Daniel Bergholz

Jan 10 '24

From Next.js to Rails then Elixir: My journey through React.js burnout

#nextjs #rails #elixir #react

13 min read

Daniel Bergholz

Mar 5 '24

Announcing TechSchool: A free and open-source platform to learn programming

#elixir #javascript #ruby #python

2 min read

Sep 26 '23

Handling state between multiple processes with elixir

#elixir #beginners #tutorial #programming

5 min read

Mar 6 '24

Ending the war or continuing it? Let's bring functional programming to OOP codebases

#programming #beginners #functional #elixir

9 min read

Oct 2 '23

Pattern matching - Dealing with the if statement nightmare

#ruby #elixir #beginners #programming

7 min read

Mar 4 '23

10 Helpful JavaScript Utility Functions

#elixir #refactor #softwaredevelopment #productivity

6 min read

Oct 23 '23

Supervisors - Letting things crash

#elixir #tutorial #beginners #programming

5 min read

Oct 15 '23

Gen servers - Abstracting state management and task run together

#beginners #programming #tutorial #elixir

5 min read

guto

Sep 18 '23

How to write a CRUD CLI using Elixir and ScyllaDB

#scylladb #elixir #opensource #tutorial

18 min read

May 20 '24

BEAM VM The good, the bad and the ugly

#elixir #erlang #braziliandevs #beginners

9 min read

Anthony Gonzalez

Apr 14 '21

Let's Build An Instagram Clone With The PETAL(Phoenix, Elixir, TailwindCSS, AlpineJS, LiveView) Stack

#elixir #webdev #programming #tutorial

23 min read

Matheus de Camargo Marques

Dec 30 '25

Are Feature Flags Bullsh*t? Why Your "IF" is Killing Performance (and the Planet)

#elixir #erlang #pon #actor

4 min read

Apr 22 '22

Elixir Roadmap

#elixir

4 min read

Nov 14 '25

How was my experience at Lambda Days 2025

#lambdadays #functional #elm #elixir

11 min read

Ayush Kumar Anand

Dec 20 '25

Breaking the "Pattern": How We Built (and tried to scale) Strategic AI for Sweep

#ai #machinelearning #architecture #elixir

3 min read

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