ExMex Conf

ExMex Conf. Bringing Elixirists together to celebrate our favorite language and enjoy some TexMex

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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.

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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.

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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

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

That’s a wrap!

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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

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

Final drop next week.

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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

https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

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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 🙏

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This week's category: Managing Complexity

From growing systems to tangled architectures, these talks are about keeping things understandable at scale.

Specifying an Elixir system — Raúl Chouza
Peeling Away Complexity — Mitchell Hanberg

https://t.co/8UC8c1OVOV

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ExMex 2025 video drop

This week’s category: Data Processing

Not Just ML: Other Uses for Nx
— Chris Ertel

When Elixir Meets Genomics: Processing Large Datasets Efficiently
— Austin Saunders

Watch here → https://t.co/io8w3ehINS

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ExMex 2025 video drop

This week’s category: Elixir Fundamentals

Enumerables under the hood — Brett Beaty
Let it Crash. No, Really! — Doug VonMoser

These talks cover core ideas that make Elixir such a powerful tool.

Watch here → https://t.co/8UC8c1OVOV

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Most people treat the static vs dynamic debate as a foregone conclusion, but in practice type systems restrict the expressive power of programming languages in ways that leak complexity to developers.

New article: Type systems are leaky abstractions — the case of Map.take!/2

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ExMex 2025 videos are rolling out!

We’re starting today with the keynotes.

Note: due to a small technical hiccup, live coding portions weren’t captured.

More releases coming soon.

Watch here → https://t.co/8UC8c1OVOV

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And finally our last speaker and closing Keynote!

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another set of great lightning talks from yesterday!

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a bit late to post the rest of these, but here are the talks before lunch!

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OMG, the great talks continue!

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So much info from yesterday swimming around in my head. actively defragging to make space for today.

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The afternoon is moving going by so fast! almost forgot to post our speakers.

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Kicked off the afternoon with a couple lightning talks!

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So many great talks this morning!

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And Here We Go!