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Elixir Radar Newsletter Issue #473

 

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Articles

Marcin Ruszkiewicz shows how to connect Google Sheets with Phoenix apps using Goth and GoogleApi packages. He walks through creating spreadsheets, importing data, and building analytics views.
George Arrowsmith shares techniques for complex LiveView nested forms: separating rendering from derived state, controlling insertion order, and using phx-change with hidden elements for custom behaviors.
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Caio Delgado shares how his team uses Oban to handle complex billing routines. He covers processing thousands of daily usage logs, automatic retries, job deduplication, and horizontal scaling. Includes practical code examples for workers, scheduling, and historical data backfilling.
Dan Schultzer provides practical code snippets for preparing chart-ready datasets in Phoenix apps. He discusses selecting appropriate step sizes for numerical and datetime data, computing percentiles with Ecto, and addressing data gaps using PostgreSQL's series generation or Elixir.

 

Videos

José Valim covers what's coming in Elixir 1.19: up to 4x faster compilation on large projects and great progress on the type system. Plus, he discusses community interoperability efforts, like language interop with PythonX, and web framework interop like Inertia.js for Phoenix.

 

Job listings

CareCar - Remote, United States
CareCar is looking for an engineer with deep Elixir experience to help scale the platform behind our medical transportation services. You’ll work on high-impact projects like real-time scheduling and dispatch, member communications, provider routing and pricing, and secure integrations with healthcare systems. Our ideal candidate is a strong technical leader who can take ownership of key features.

 

Events

August 28-29 - Orlando, USA & Virtual
September 10-12 - Varberg, Sweden
November 05-06 - Berlin, Germany & Online
November 06-07 - Austin, TX, USA

 

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