286: A NextJS Escape and 2025 in Review

News includes a compelling story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix and Ash in just two weeks, Credo 1.7.15 with massive performance improvements dropping runtime from 33 to 9 seconds on large codebases, Soothsayer library updates for time series forecasting, Torchx now running on Apple Metal, an EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries monthly, the first ever GleamLang conference announced for 2026, and more! After the news, we take a retrospective look at 2025, reviewing notable events and trends throughout the year. Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/286 Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.https://wortwildnis.de/ – Urban Dictionary for German colloquial terms created by Jan Wirthhttps://github.com/janwirth/wortwildnis – Open source repository for Wortwildnishttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7410405236504248320/ – Jan Wirth's story of transitioning from NextJS to Phoenix + Ash, delivering a feature-rich application in two weeks with no prior Elixir experiencehttps://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3mavexpiexs24 – Tyler Young announcing Credo 1.7.15 release with massive performance improvementshttps://bsky.app/profile/tylerayoung.com/post/3m7435rnflk2a – Tyler Young's PRs that dropped Credo runtime from ~33 seconds to ~9 seconds on a 3500 file codebasehttps://github.com/rrrene/credo – Credo GitHub repositoryhttps://github.com/rrrene/credo/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md – Credo changelog with details on version 1.7.15https://x.com/georgeguimaraes/status/2003450598545563754 – George Guimarães announcing Soothsayer v0.6.1 updatehttps://github.com/georgeguimaraes/soothsayer – Soothsayer library for time series forecasting in Elixir, inspired by Facebook's Prophet and NeuralProphethttps://x.com/polvalente/status/2005467305984045457 – Paulo Valente sharing that Torchx now runs on Apple Metalhttps://github.com/elixir-nx/nx/pull/1652 – PR by Paulo Valente enabling Torchx to run on Apple Metalhttps://erlef.org/blog/sponsorship/case-study-sora-dnsimple – EEF case study on how DNSimple uses Erlang to handle hundreds of billions of DNS queries each monthhttps://x.com/TheErlef/status/2005700343725015158 – Announcement of the first ever GleamLang conferencehttps://gleamgathering.com – Gleam Gathering conference website, February 21, 2026 in Bristol, UK with keynote by Louis Pilfold Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at [e-mail] Find us online Message the show - BlueskyMessage the show - XMessage the show on Fediverse - @[e-mail] the show - [e-mail] Ericksen on X - @brainlidMark Ericksen on Bluesky - @brainlid.bsky.socialMark Ericksen on Fediverse - @[e-mail] Bernheisel on Bluesky - @david.bernheisel.comDavid Bernheisel on Fediverse - @[e-mail]