Alchemy Conf

More than just code. #elixirlang
🗓️ March 31 - April 3, 2025

Brought to you by @subvisual

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Alchemists! 🧙‍♂️

We were very glad to see you all in Braga last week, and now that the team has had about 48 hours to rest, we're back at it again.

All the video we made for Alchemy, including the talks, will be made available at our brand new Content Hub.

You know what to do.

[Subvisual @subvisual]

🚨The Subvisual Content Hub is up 🚨

You can find it here 👉 https://t.co/NWtaMKC1S5

We’ve been working on this for a while. Here’s where you’ll be able to find case studies, blogs, podcasts, talks, and every single piece of content we make going forward.

Details below ⬇️

[Subvisual @subvisual]

We're sponsoring @ElixirConfEU 2026.

And we're giving away 2 free tickets to students.

José Valim. Chris McCord. 40+ talks. Málaga, April 23-24.

Student + Elixir GitHub project = you're in the draw.

Apply: https://t.co/2yeo2FVDIY
Deadline: April 5.

[Subvisual @subvisual]

@thejuliams (@turn_io) on building a WhatsApp help desk routing engine at @Alchemy_Conf 💬

GenServer + Dynamic Supervisor to route between chatbots and human operators. Tracks "lease" ownership of conversations. Handles mid-chat handoffs 🔄

Started as "random routing," turned out way more complex.

The breakthrough 💡 letting chatbot builders trigger operator routing at decision points—empowering domain experts to decide when humans should step in.

10 devs, 21M chats/year 📊

Link in bio.

#AlchemyConf #Elixir #MyElixirLang

[Braga BEAM User Group @BragaBEAM]

@marmelasoft is organising another edition of #BBUG ⚗️ This time we are joining the @swmansion initiative #GlobalElixirMeetups to bring together Elixir devs for a week full of talks, code and community 🙌

Joins us at @subvisual offices for another great edition 🔥

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

What a talk this was, @ZachSDaniel1, thanks so much.

[Subvisual @subvisual]

The developer onboarding dilemma:

Setup: "Do you want authentication?" → No
Setup: "Do you want a database?" → No
Setup: "Do you want real-time features?" → No

2 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳

"Actually, I need all of those..."

@ZachSDaniel1's Igniter solves this by making installers composable and upgradeable. Instead of predicting future needs, you start simple and add complexity incrementally.

The demo showing automated dependency management and code changes working with CI? That's the direction all tooling should head.

Worth watching for the approach, even if you don't use Elixir. Link in bio!

#MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang #AlchemyConf

[Subvisual @subvisual]

🧵 What can basketball, fiction writing, game development, and card games teach software teams?

@PragTob couldn't code after injuring his arms. So he found new hobbies.

The lessons changed everything about how he thinks about development 👇

[Subvisual @subvisual]

🚨 More than 3 million lines of code. One Elixir monolith.

At @Alchemy_Conf 2025, @lejboua broke down the journey of scaling Remote as an #Elixir monolith—sharing key lessons and improvements along the way.

🔗 Watch now on our Content Hub

[Subvisual @subvisual]

1/ What makes gen_statem powerful—and painful? 🧵

@whatyouhide breaks down the core features in our first @Alchemy_Conf 2025 talk upload.

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

The ones responsible for making it all happen — huge shoutout to them!

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

What an incredible last day at #AlchemyConf with @wojtekmach, @thejuliams, Cristoph, @ZachSDaniel1, @mraaroncruz and @whatyouhide.
Huge thanks to everyone involved! 🙌

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

In this @BeamRadio1 episode, @joshprice gives Alchemy Conf a truly amazing shoutout while also diving into @AshFramework.
Definitely worth a listen: https://t.co/vQyuzkPnCx

[BeamRadio @BeamRadio1]

Two for Tuesday!
Here are two marvelous newly released episodes -
@joshprice talking with BeamRadio hosts about @Alchemy_Conf and @AshFramework

https://t.co/eu25aowjW3

#ElixirLang

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Thank you to all our sponsors—this wouldn’t have happened without you.

@remote @ErlangSolutions @getcoverflex @Maersk @marmelasoft @yarilabs @teamalembic @StartUpBraga @cesiuminho

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Day 1 was all about workshops.
Day 2? Time for the talks—and what a lineup: @redrapids, @PragTob, @lejboua , @whatyouhide, @hugobarauna, and @sasajuric, thank you!
There was still more to share… so Setra became our stage for the night.

[Hugo Baraúna @hugobarauna]

What a fantastic event!

If not the best one I've ever been to, definitely top 3!

#MyElixirStatus #ElixirLang

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Workshops were the perfect way to kick off the week — talks are great, but getting hands-on hits differently.
Big thanks to @ZachSDaniel1, @whatyouhide, @sasajuric, @joshprice, and @redrapids for leading the sessions.

[ju.lia @thejuliams]

it was such a fun conference 💜

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

@ruipferrao They won't all be made available at the same time due to speaker requirements, but you can expect releases to begin next week.

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Alchemists! 🧙‍♂️

We were very glad to see you all in Braga last week, and now that the team has had about 48 hours to rest, we're back at it again.

All the video we made for Alchemy, including the talks, will be made available at our brand new Content Hub.

You know what to do.

[Subvisual @subvisual]

🚨The Subvisual Content Hub is up 🚨

You can find it here 👉 https://t.co/NWtaMKC1S5

We’ve been working on this for a while. Here’s where you’ll be able to find case studies, blogs, podcasts, talks, and every single piece of content we make going forward.

Details below ⬇️

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Alchemy Conf is still on our minds — and after watching this recap video, it’ll be on yours too🙂

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

Alchemy Conf is still on our minds — and after watching this recap video, it’ll be on yours too🙂

[Alchemy Conf @Alchemy_Conf]

@brecke @sasajuric As long as we didn't get it on film 🦭