We're excited to be returning to Capital Factory for ExMex Conf 2026! Join us in the heart of downtown Austin on November 12th & 13th for two days of Elixir, community, and conversation. Early Bird tickets are still on sale. exmexconf.com
Observability. SRE. SLOs. Traces. Metrics. Logs. You've probably heard the terms—but what do they actually mean? Ariel Valentin cuts through the buzzwords and shares a practical introduction to observability for Ruby developers. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KErL...
RBQ 2026 - Practical Observability for Ruby
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Security Vendor's AI Best Practices Labels Critical Elixir RCE Safe The dangers of AI generated SEO spam are real, especially when it comes to cybersecurity! paraxial.io/blog/ai-spam
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LLM features shouldn't be treated like a black box bolted onto your Rails app. In his RBQ Conf talk, David Paluy explores practical patterns for instrumenting LLM calls so you can measure cost, latency, failures, and more in production. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ4e...
RBQ 2026 - LLM Telemetry as a First-Class Rails Concern
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ExMex 2026 tickets are now on sale! Join us in Austin on November 12th & 13th for two days of Elixir talks, community, and conversation. We've also updated the website with travel information to help you start planning your trip. exmexconf.com
🚨 Announcing our new Podcast 🚨 Gus (@gworkman.bsky.social) and I have started a new #ElixirLang Podcast Macro Mayhem - @macromayhem.fm We cover Elixir news and general industry topics every 2 weeks. Our first episode is out now, available on all podcast players or on our website: macromayhem.fm
Macro Mayhem
The latest Elixir news and general software industry topics
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“Rails magic” is really just code waiting to be understood. In her RBQ Conf talk, Meghan Gutshall explores ActiveRecord Enums, when to use them, the features they provide, and how to trace their behavior through the Rails codebase. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn1k...
RBQ 2026 - Revealing Rails Magic with Enums
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As more tools abstract away our workflows, understanding Git is becoming more important, not less. PJ Hagerty explores why Git still matters and how a better understanding of version control can strengthen your development workflow. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G0a...
We're excited to announce this year's ExMex Conf keynote speakers! Please join us in welcoming James and Lorena to Austin this November. Early Bird tickets will be on sale soon. exmexconf.com
Everything worked perfectly... until two requests arrived at the same time. In his RBQ Conf talk, Yarik explores the concurrency problems Rails apps quietly ignore and shares practical patterns for handling concurrent access safely. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5fa...
How does someone use their own domain as their Fediverse identity? In his RBQ Conf talk, Tom Brown shares what he learned from two years of building a Ruby Fediverse application and explains how WebFinger Reverse Discovery makes it possible. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mKH...
Need a little more time? We're extending the ExMex Conf 2026 Call for Speakers by 24 hours. The CFP will now close tomorrow, July 16th, at the end of the day. If you've been meaning to submit, this is your chance. exmexconf.com
Postgres partitioning can feel confusing, risky, or reserved for massive enterprise apps. Alex Yarotsky shows how Rails developers can approach partitioning with practical, real-world techniques you can apply with confidence. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dZZ...
Regex can feel like magic. But what actually happens when Ruby sees something like `/abc/`? In his RBQ Conf talk, Daniel follows a regular expression through Ruby's internals — from parsing to bytecode to execution. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkb_...
One week left to submit your talk for ExMex Conf 2026. Have something you've built, learned, explored, or discovered with Elixir? We'd love to hear about it. Have an idea but not sure if it's ready? Reach out. We're happy to help. CFP closes July 15th. exmexconf.com
Your background job ran for hours, processed millions of records... then disappeared during a deploy. Retries won't save you from a job that never failed. In his RBQ Conf talk, Bart explores resilient background jobs in Ruby. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtrm...
Missed RBQ Conf? Or want to revisit a favorite talk? Starting this week, we'll be releasing about two talks each week from the inaugural RBQ Conf. Watch every release at rbqconf.com.
LiveView is great - until you need it on a third-party site. @hacknut.bsky.social shows how to run Phoenix apps across the web with iframes, custom elements & LiveState: youtu.be/ljx3uDsy9Rg 🎟️ Level up your Elixir game in Chicago: elixirconf.com
The ExMex Conf 2026 Call for Speakers is now open. Whether it's your first conference talk or your fiftieth, we'd love to hear what you've been building, learning, and exploring w/ Elixir. CFP closes July 15th. Sponsor opportunities are also available. exmexconf.com
ExMex Conf returns to Austin, TX on November 12th & 13th, 2026. A few updates as we kick things off: • CFP opens in 1 week • Sponsor opportunities are now available Get ready. We can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on. exmexconf.com
Final ExMex 2025 video drop: Elixir DIY - making Elixir your own. Own Your Infra — Thomas Athanas The Case for Custom Task Oversight in Elixir — Curtis Ault Automating my office with Nerves — Jason Axelson exmexconf.com/#videos That’s a wrap! #ExMexConf #ElixirLang
ExMex Conf
Two days. One track. All Elixir. Join us November 6-7th, 2025 in Austin, TX for an Elixir conference with a little Austin flair.
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Penultimate ExMex 2025 release! Category: Phoenix From LiveView to PubSub systems Animated LiveView: Pushing TailwindCSS v4 to the limit — Justin Tormey Make PubSub great again! — Alvaro Callero exmexconf.com/#videos Final drop next week. #ExMexConf #ElixirLang
ExMex Conf
Two days. One track. All Elixir. Join us November 6-7th, 2025 in Austin, TX for an Elixir conference with a little Austin flair.
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This week’s category: Elixir & AI From practical tools to new ideas, these talks explore how Elixir & AI work together. Getting Elixir on the AI Flywheel — Isaac Yonemoto Turning AI into an Engineering discipline — Thomas Millar exmexconf.com/#videos #ExMexConf
ExMex Conf
Two days. One track. All Elixir. Join us November 6-7th, 2025 in Austin, TX for an Elixir conference with a little Austin flair.
exmexconf.com
Quick update on ExMex videos: We’re taking this week off from releases while we wrapped up **RBQConf**. Back next week with more talks. Appreciate the patience 🙏 #ExMexConf #ElixirLang
Games in Ruby? it’s totally doable with DragonRuby. Thanks Amir for a great talk and great framework. #RBQConf
David gives us something to think about w.r.t. AI and measuring its performance/outcomes like anything else in software development. #RBQConf
Making the case for Open Telemetry and Observabilty in Ruby and Rails. Excellent talk from Austin’s own, Ariel Valentin. #RBQConf
Yarik walks us through production race conditions that can happen even with Transactions in place. #RBQConf
Metaverse? no thanks! Fediverse is pretty cool. Thanks Tom for a wonderful talk to start the second day! #RBQConf
PJ reminds takes down memory lane, reminding us what life was like before git and why git is more important than ever. #RBQConf
