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Dashbit Blog
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Dashbit Blog is the company blog at dashbit.co, writing about programming. Since 2020, 79 different Hacker News readers have linked it 130 times, most often “An upcoming authentication solution for Phoenix”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-24, and you can follow it by feed.
At Dashbit, we help startups and enterprises adopt and run Elixir in production via the Elixir Development Subscription. Our goal is to advance the Elixir ecosystem through continuous adoption and sustainable open source development.
Most-linked posts?
- An upcoming authentication solution for Phoenix11 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2020-03-31
- Nx (Numerical Elixir) is now publicly available10 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2021-02-17
- Kubernetes and the Erlang VM: orchestration on the large and the small (2019)5 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2021-05-18
- Why Elixir is the best language for AI – Dashbit Blog5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2026-02-05
- Supercharged Elixir: Latency and Rendering Optimizations in Phoenix LiveView5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-10-17
- 10 years-ish of Elixir5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-01-11
- Rustler Precompiled: Use precompiled NIFs in your Elixir projects4 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2022-03-30
- Phoenix Playground4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-06-18
- Evolving programming languages in the AI era4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-09-24
- You may not need Redis with Elixir4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-11-11
What Hacker News says?
> lack of robust python support There is no such thing. Tell me, which combination of the 15+ virtual environments, dependency management and Python version managers would you use? And how would you prevent "project collision" (where one Python project bumps into another one and one just stops working)? Example: SSL library differences across projects is a notorious culprit. Python is garbage and I don't understand…
Comment linking /blog/running-python-in-elixir-its-fine
on “Apple M3 Ultra”Submitted Livebook: A collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir as a story · 585 points
HN discussionthe new numbat library https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-... exposes primatives for gpu acccellerated math powered by google's xla library. the same one that powers tensorflow.
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on “Write libraries instead of services, where possible”Submitted 10 years-ish of Elixir as a story · 422 points
HN discussionWe are actually working on a `mix phx.gen.auth` generator. Check Dashbit's blog about it: https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph...
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on “Build a real-time Twitter clone with LiveView and Phoenix 1.5”Submitted Embedding Python in Elixir, it's fine as a story · 308 points
HN discussionThere’s already an article on this you can find here: https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph... The GitHub for the generator is here: https://github.com/aaronrenner/phx_gen_auth Basically if you need something different it might be worth forking the generator. I might look at passwordless login at some point.
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on “10 years-ish of Elixir”Submitted Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released as a story · 274 points
HN discussion> Most of what you get from elixir in terms of redundancy, high availability, etc you can have that anyway from kubernetes, heroku or any PaaS.... you will need more than 1 server anyway, so... For what is worth, that's one of the reasons why Elixir exists in the first place. I find the Erlang VM a fantastic platform and there is no reason to restrict it to high availability/distributed scenarios. Elixir developers…
Comment linking /blog/kubernetes-and-the-erlang-vm-orchestration-on-the-large-and-the-small
on “Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?”Submitted Elixir and Machine Learning in 2024 so far: MLIR, Arrow, structured LLM, etc. as a story · 260 points
HN discussionI'm at a relatively early stage VC-backed startup and from day 1 it's been written in Elixir. It was a fantastic choice, for many reasons, with some being: - Elixir is good for just getting stuff done. I came from a previous startup that used Go and Elm. - The community isn't as small as people make it out to be, or, it's quality over quantity. ;) - There's a lot of good modules out there, and if you need to write y…
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on “Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?”Submitted Evolving programming languages in the AI era as a story · 139 points
HN discussionHere a good blog post on this exact topic https://dashbit.co/blog/a-new-authentication-solution-for-ph...
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on “Ask HN: Are you satisfied with Elixir or do you regret choosing Elixir?”Submitted Data evolution with set-theoretic types as a story · 127 points
HN discussionDo you know what other ecosystem comes closest to the existing in Python? I've heard good things about Julia. 13 years ago when I was trying to explore the field R seemed to be the most popular, but looks like not anymore. (I didn't get into the field, and do just a regular SWE, so I'm not aware of the trends). There is also a lot of development in Elixir ecosystem around the subject [1]. [1]( https://dashbit.co/blo…
Comment linking /blog/elixir-ml-s1-2024-mlir-arrow-instructor
on “Ask HN: Machine learning engineers, what do you do at work?”Submitted Remix's concurrent submissions are fundamentally flawed as a story · 106 points
HN discussionApparently José Valim is no longer at plataformatec: https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1219264309202771968 Now at https://dashbit.co/
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on “Elixir v1.10”Submitted Homemade Analytics with Ecto and Elixir as a story · 90 points
HN discussionCo-author of Elixir Patterns here :). Really appreciate the kind words and happy to hear that you are enjoying the book! Hugo Baraúna and I have really enjoyed putting this book together and feel that Livebook has become pivotal in explaining certain topics and really understanding how things work under the hood. I wrote a blog post about some of my thoughts around Livebook as a learning tool on the DashBit blog: ht…
Comment linking /blog/livebook-as-an-educational-tool
on “Elixir Livebook now as a desktop app”Submitted Soft Deletes with Ecto and PostgreSQL as a story · 81 points
HN discussionI believe we have one. Does this address work for you? https://dashbit.co/feed
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on “Elixir and Machine Learning: Nx v0.1 released”Submitted Livebook: a collaborative and interactive code notebook for Elixir as a story · 65 points
HN discussionHi everyone, co-creator of Nx here! I have just published an article on Dashbit's blog with a bit more context on Nx and the design decisions behind it: https://dashbit.co/blog/nx-numerical-elixir-is-now-publicly-... It is hopefully a more in-depth reference than the README. If you have any questions, I will be glad to answer them!
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on “Nx: Multi-dimensional tensors Elixir lib with multi-staged compilation (CPU/GPU)”Submitted Web Apps Have Client and Server State as a story · 14 points
HN discussionExcellent read! This is the first time I feel like I finally have a good handle on the "what" & "why" of RSCs. It has also sparked a strong desire to see RSCs compared and contrasted with Phoenix LiveView. The distinction between RSCs sending "JSX" over the Wire, and LiveViews sending "minimal HTML diffs"[0] over the wire is fascinating to me, and I'm really curious how the two methodologies compare/contrast in prac…
Comment linking /blog/remix-concurrent-submissions-flawed
on “JSX over the Wire”Submitted Elixir and Machine Learning: Q3 2023 roundup as a story · 12 points
HN discussion> if your a company which is fully bought into ephemeral containers running on Kubernetes then Elixir is probably not going to be a great fit for you As a community, we have got to stop saying this stuff. It's false. Nothing about Elixir or k8s precludes using the other. Elixir applications can and do run just fine in containers and k8s deployments. In fact, they're complementary: https://dashbit.co/blog/kubernetes-…
Comment linking /blog/kubernetes-and-the-erlang-vm-orchestration-on-the-large-and-the-small
on “Why Elixir? Common misconceptions”Submitted 10 Years(-Ish) of Elixir as a story · 10 points
HN discussion- tl · 2025-07-23
While Elixir is my current favorite language to hack in, it is very alien and downright hostile to integrating with existing systems. For example, relational database support was postgres focused for a long time (to the exclusion even of SQLite and continued inability to talk to Oracle). Then you have articles like https://dashbit.co/blog/you-may-not-need-redis-with-elixir pushing ETS over Redis. While it's a valid…
Comment linking /blog/you-may-not-need-redis-with-elixir
on “Why Elixir? Common misconceptions” Submitted Tidewave: Beyond Code Intelligence as a story · 8 points
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