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261: Why Elixir and a $300K Daily Bill?

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News includes Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidates featuring change tracking in comprehensions by default and TypeScript annotations, José Valim's inspiring DevLabs interview about building authentic tools and fostering healthy ecosystems, Matthew Sinclair's comprehensive post outlining 9 compelling reasons to choose Elixir, Peter Solnica's exciting teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir, Igniter's growing adoption with 45 packages now using it for simplified installation, ElixirConf 2025 US tickets available with ThinkingElixir discount, Figma's S-1 filing revealing their staggering $300,000 daily AWS costs, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/261

Elixir Community News

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https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_live_view/1.1.0-rc.2/changelog.html#v1-1-0-rc-2-2025-07-05 – Phoenix LiveView 1.1.0 release candidate with change tracking in comprehensions by default
https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lteubbasjc2g – Steffen's thread about LiveView 1.1.0 RC changes and improvements
Includes Colocated JS hooks and TypeScript type annotations to all public JavaScript APIs
https://x.com/vmelnikova_en/status/1939754121005031881 – DevLabs interview announcement with José Valim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihn2fuc_ueQ – José Valim on feeding desire to learn, healthy Elixir ecosystem and the future of AI tooling
https://bsky.app/profile/matthewsinclair.com/post/3ltfyuekfkc2w – Matthew Sinclair's post about why Elixir is a great choice
https://matthewsinclair.com/blog/0181-why-elixir – \"Why Elixir? A Rebuttal to Common Misconceptions\" blog post with 9 reasons
https://hex.pm/packages/recon – Collection of functions and scripts to debug Erlang in production.
https://hex.pm/packages/observer_cli – Visualize Erlang/Elixir Nodes On The Command Line
https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3ltf3e7nije24 – Peter Solnica teaser about rebuilding rom-rb in Elixir
https://bsky.app/profile/zachdaniel.dev/post/3ltg6dak7fk2f – Zach Daniel shares that Igniter now has 45 packages using it for simplified installation
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf 2025 US tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off
https://www.figma.com/blog/s1-public/ – Figma's S-1 filing announcement for going public
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1579878/000162828025033742/figma-sx1.htm – Figma's SEC S-1 filing document
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/design-platform-figma-spends-300000-on-aws-daily/ – Figma spends $300,000 daily on AWS services according to S-1 filing

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