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Peter Ullrich on Hunting CVEs
May 30, 2026
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Vasilis Spilka on LLMs & Ash
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| 5/30/26 | ![]() Peter Ullrich on Hunting CVEs | Peter Ullrich returns to talk about a CVE hunt across the most-downloaded Hex packages, run with Claude Code on Opus 4.7. After ElixirConf EU pulled him into AI security, he started pointing Opus at popular libraries day and night, and within half an hour of his first serious attempt he found the Decimal vulnerability, where raising 10 to a huge power can blow up an application's memory.We get into what separates a real CVE from noise, how CVSS scoring works, and why reachability matters so much, since a flaw in Phoenix's default configuration is far more serious than a crash in a function nobody can call. Peter also walks through the process he runs with the EEF: verifying each issue, getting a second pair of eyes, coordinating a fix, and getting a number issued through a CNA, all while avoiding slop reports to maintainers. There's also a candid stretch on regulation and breach reporting.From there it widens out, including how Opus compares to Mythos, why Peter keeps coming back to Claude, his first impressions of Opus 4.8, and the economics, with a simple scan costing about $10 in API tokens. He also shares his Session Watcher plugin, an update on Killswitch and its browser-side encryption, thoughts on AEO, and how he uses dev containers to sandbox coding agents.Resources Mentioned:- The blog post that started this:https://peterullrich.com/what-the-cve- Peter's prompts:gist- Scrutineer:github.com/alpha-omega-security/scrutineer- Decimal advisory:GHSA-rhv4-8758-jx7v- EEF CNA published CVEs:cna.erlef.org/cves- EEF CNA security policy:cna.erlef.org/security-policy- Responsible disclosure guidelines:security.erlef.org- Anthropic article (the basis):red.anthropic.comConnect with Peter:- Website:peterullrich.com- GitHub:github.com/pjullrich- LinkedIn:linkedin.com/in/pjullrich- Bluesky:@peterullrich.comThanks to our sponsors:- BEAMOps:beamops.co.uk- Paraxial.io:paraxial.ioSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor:elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 5/24/26 | ![]() Jason Allum on Bedrock | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I sit down with Jason Allum, creator of Bedrock and Beadwork and a 40-year veteran of computing, to talk about Bedrock: an embedded, distributed key-value store for Elixir with guarantees that go beyond ACID.Jason walks through the problem Bedrock solves, keeping distributed state consistent when the same data is read and written across many nodes. We get into why the BEAM's decades-old ideas map cleanly onto today's AI and agent workloads, how Bedrock borrows its architecture from FoundationDB, and what serializable transactions actually buy you over plain ACID.From there we dig into the machinery: log servers versus storage servers, the five-second version window and MVCC, letting it crash with supervision-tree thinking across a cluster, and how rows can live as values while indexes become keys. Jason also covers running distributed jobs with leases and what it takes to swap Postgres out for Bedrock.Along the way Jason makes the case that none of this is magic, that the real wins come from understanding your machine and the shape of your data. We finish on Beadwork, his lightweight system for managing agent tickets directly in git. If you build with Elixir or care about distributed databases, there's a lot here to chew on.Connect with Jason:- X/Twitter:https://x.com/mullaj- GitHub:https://github.com/jallumProjects:- Bedrock:https://github.com/bedrock-kv/bedrock- Beadwork:https://github.com/jallum/beadworkResources Mentioned:- Notes on the FoundationDB paper:https://uvdn7.github.io/notes-on-the-foundationdb-paper/- FoundationDB architecture:https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/architecture.html- Raft consensus algorithm (GeeksforGeeks):https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/system-design/raft-consensus-algorithm/- The Raft Consensus Algorithm:https://raft.github.io/Sponsors:- BEAMOps:https://beamops.co.uk- Paraxial.io:https://paraxial.io- Jido (Elixir AI Collective Discord):https://agentjido.xyz/discordSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor:https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 5/16/26 | ![]() Michael Lubas on AI, Attack, and Defense | Michael Lubas, CEO of Paraxial.io, returns to the Elixir Mentor Podcast to talk about AI's dual role in cybersecurity: finding the vulnerabilities and writing the code that creates them. Michael was my first-ever guest, and a lot has changed since his last appearance — most of it driven by the inflection point of the past six months.We open with the Hex package manager penetration test that Paraxial conducted as part of the Aegis initiative under the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, funded through Alpha Omega and its donors. Michael caught a remote code execution vulnerability before it shipped, and the public report gives Elixir a strong story to tell about the security of its package ecosystem. From there we get into GitHub Actions supply chain attacks, why zizmor is the tool every maintainer should be running, and the recent campaigns where malicious code targets release pipelines rather than application source.The conversation turns to the AI inflection point. The Erlang Ecosystem Foundation's CNA issued nine CVEs in all of 2025 and is on track for well over a hundred in 2026, driven by researchers like Peter Ullrich using AI to find vulnerabilities that already existed in source code. Firefox went from an average of 20 valid bug reports a month to over 400 in April 2026. Michael argues that Anthropic and OpenAI have been responsible stewards of these capabilities, and that defenders without access to state-of-the-art models are at a structural disadvantage. We also talk about why bug bounty programs are collapsing under AI-generated noise — something I experienced firsthand running Killswitch's program earlier this year.In the second half we get practical. Michael walks through what a real penetration test costs, when Claude Code is actually useful for solo developers, and the common Elixir-specific gotchas: binary term deserialization, server-side request forgery, dynamic atom creation, and the importance of staying inside Ecto's default query syntax. We also touch on Erik Stenman's BEAM Book, the difference between Paraxial and Sobelow, and what SOC 2 compliance does and does not cover.Resources Mentioned:- Securing Hex, the Backbone of the Elixir Ecosystem (Paraxial blog): https://paraxial.io/blog/hex-pentest- Hex Package Manager security audit report: https://hex.pm/reports/2026/paraxial.pdf- Erlang Ecosystem Foundation CNA: https://cna.erlef.org/- Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude (Mozilla Hacks): https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behind-the-scenes-hardening-firefox/- Project Glasswing (Anthropic): https://www.anthropic.com/project/glasswing- The First CVE Wave (VulnCheck): https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/ai-assisted-vulnerability-discovery- Third major Linux kernel flaw in two weeks found by AI (ZDNet): https://www.zdnet.com/article/third-major-linux-kernel-flaw-in-two-weeks-found-by-ai/- What the CVE? — Peter Ullrich: https://peterullrich.com/what-the-cve- Nicholas Carlini, "Black Hat LLMs" (unprompted 2026): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmgConnect with Michael:- Website: https://paraxial.io- X/Twitter: https://x.com/paraxialio- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaellubas/- GitHub: https://github.com/paraxialioSponsors:- BEAMOps: https://beamops.co.uk- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io- Jido — Elixir AI Collective Discord: https://agentjido.xyz/discord- Support Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Vasilis Spilka on LLMs & Ash✨ | agentic softwareLLMs+5 | Vasilis Spilka | TeacherspaceAsh+10 | — | software developmentAsh Framework+7 | — | 1h 36m 53s | |
| 4/12/26 | ![]() Luca Corti on Bringing Elixir to Fintech✨ | ElixirFintech+5 | Luca Corti | SibillPython+4 | MilanoItaly | ElixirFintech+6 | — | 1h 40m 23s | |
| 4/4/26 | ![]() Steve Domino on Starting a Fintech✨ | fintechprogramming+5 | Steve Domino | CrewDivvy+3 | Utah | fintechchecking account+5 | — | 1h 35m 24s | |
| 3/29/26 | ![]() Mark Cotner on Scaling Telecom✨ | telecomdatabase management+5 | Mark Cotner | HexElixir+6 | AWS | telecomdatabases+8 | — | 1h 32m 40s | |
| 3/22/26 | ![]() George Millo on Agentic Coding✨ | agentic codingLLM-driven development+5 | George Millo | Learn Phoenix Live ViewGauntlet AI+5 | — | LLMagentic coding+8 | — | 1h 31m 03s | |
| 3/14/26 | ![]() Leandro Pereira on MDEx✨ | Markdown libraryRust integration+4 | Leandro Pereira | MDExLumis+6 | — | MDExLumis+7 | — | 1h 35m 58s | |
| 3/11/26 | ![]() Josh Price on Ash & Alembic✨ | ElixirAsh Framework+4 | Josh Price | ClarityAlembic+2 | — | ElixirAsh Framework+6 | — | 1h 54m 43s | |
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| 3/7/26 | ![]() Thomas Athanas on Building Without Vendor Lock-In✨ | vendor lock-ininfrastructure decisions+4 | Thomas Athanas | LevelAllFly+10 | — | vendor lock-ininfrastructure+5 | — | 1h 38m 03s | |
| 2/21/26 | ![]() Amos King on sharing knowledge✨ | mentorshipknowledge sharing+5 | Amos King | AdobeBinary Noggin | — | Elixirmentorship+6 | — | 1h 37m 28s | |
| 2/14/26 | ![]() Dave Lucia on Building TV Labs✨ | AI-powered smart TV testingElixir programming+5 | Dave Lucia | WebRTCOpenTelemetry+7 | AI | smart TVAI testing platform+5 | — | 1h 29m 27s | |
| 2/7/26 | ![]() Rob Walling on Building SaaS | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Rob Walling — serial entrepreneur, author of The SaaS Playbook, founder of MicroConf, co-founder of TinySeed, and the guy who bootstrapped Drip to a successful exit. With over 20 years of experience and investments in 230+ B2B SaaS companies, Rob shares the playbook for building software businesses without venture capital.Rob breaks down his stairstep method of entrepreneurship, explaining why technical founders should start with small wins on existing marketplaces before attempting a standalone SaaS product. We get into the common traps developers fall into — refusing to learn marketing, building products that "sell themselves," and bootstrapping two-sided marketplaces without an existing audience. Rob also shares the full Drip origin story, from a plateauing email tool to a marketing automation platform that took off after listening to customer feedback.We cover the four core SaaS skills every founding team needs (marketing or sales, product, and engineering), how to decide between finding a co-founder and learning to sell on your own, and where successful SaaS ideas actually come from — 72% were discovered at a day job. Rob also weighs in on how AI is reshaping the SaaS landscape, why he doesn't believe in a "SaaS apocalypse," and what really drives company valuations. His final advice for technical founders: think in years, not months, and invest in learning entrepreneurship the same way you invested in learning to code.Resources Mentioned:- The SaaS Playbook: https://saasplaybook.com- MicroConf: https://microconf.com- TinySeed: https://tinyseed.comConnect with Rob:- Website: https://robwalling.com- X/Twitter: https://x.com/robwalling- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robwalling- Podcast: https://www.startupsfortherestofus.comSponsors:- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discordSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 1/31/26 | ![]() Jamil Bou Kheir on Firezone | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Jamil Bou Kheir, founder of Firezone, a YC-backed open-source zero-trust access platform. Jamil shares his journey from eight years as a Cisco security engineer to building an enterprise VPN replacement using Elixir and Rust.We explore how Firezone started as a simple WireGuard configuration tool that hit the front page of Hacker News, then evolved into a full zero-trust platform. Jamil explains the architecture decisions behind using Elixir for the control plane and Rust for the data plane, including their custom ICE implementation called Snownet for NAT traversal. The conversation covers practical insights on Phoenix PubSub for real-time signaling, Postgres WAL streaming for change data capture, and running a global Erlang cluster.Jamil also shares candid advice from the Y Combinator experience, discussing funding, product-market fit, and the challenges of rebuilding a product architecture mid-startup. We dive into the realities of open source licensing, security through transparency, and SOC 2 compliance. The episode touches on AI in development workflows, managing large refactors, and marketing strategies for technical founders.Whether you're interested in networking protocols, building with Elixir at scale, or the startup journey from side project to funded company, this conversation offers valuable perspective from someone doing it in production.Resources Mentioned:- Firezone: https://www.firezone.dev- WireGuard: https://www.wireguard.com- Github: https://github.com/firezone/firezoneConnect with Jamil:- Website: https://www.firezone.dev- X/Twitter: https://x.com/jamilbk- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamilbk/- GitHub: https://github.com/jamilbkSponsors:- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discordSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 1/24/26 | ![]() Enrique Leigh on Prende | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Enrique Leigh, founder of Prende Café in Chile. We explore how he built a specialty coffee subscription business using Phoenix LiveView, his journey from marketing and ad tech to becoming an Elixir developer, and why he chose custom e-commerce over platforms like Shopify.Enrique shares the WordPress crash during a Chile vs Brazil match that sparked his interest in Elixir, and how building his own coffee business became the perfect way to finally learn the language. We discuss UX principles from "Don't Make Me Think," marketing frameworks like Jobs to Be Done, and the counterintuitive lesson that adding more checkout steps can actually increase conversions. He also explains the specialty coffee value chain, from sourcing beans in Brazil to roasting and running a physical café alongside the e-commerce platform.Our conversation covers practical entrepreneurship topics including MVP philosophy, building subscription and coupon systems with Mercado Pago, using Oban for job scheduling, and content marketing strategies that work. Enrique shares insights on balancing Iron Man training with running a family business, productivity techniques from the Flow Research Collective, and the evolving landscape of ad tech after GDPR. We also discuss his future goals of learning Nerves to build IoT coffee machines and the growing Elixir community in Chile.The episode wraps up with advice for aspiring entrepreneurs: just launch it. Enrique emphasizes that the cost of inaction is often greater than the cost of action, and with tools like LLMs that work remarkably well with Elixir, there's never been a better time to build your own products.Resources Mentioned:- Don't Make Me Think: https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/- Oban: https://getoban.pro/- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discordConnect with Enrique:- Website: https://www.prendecafe.cl- X/Twitter: https://x.com/EnriqueLeigh- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/enriqueleigh/Sponsors:- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io- Jido: https://agentjido.xyz/discordSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 1/17/26 | ![]() Mike Ratliff on Building an Energy Tech Startup | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Mike Ratliff, a 30-year tech veteran and CTO currently building an energy tech startup. Mike shares his path from Ruby threading nightmares to leading 20-engineer Elixir teams, and how discovering the BEAM transformed his approach to building 24/7 grid systems.We dig into the technical challenges of power grid software, including distributed energy resource management, solar intermittency, and why utilities remain cautious about new technology. Mike explains how his current startup is tackling transmission interconnection problems using Elixir, and his plans to incorporate AI agents through the Jido framework.The conversation shifts to how AI is reshaping development teams and startup economics. Mike makes a compelling case for small, elite teams over large engineering organizations, sharing his philosophy on profit per headcount and why he believes we'll see one-person unicorn companies emerge. We discuss rethinking technical interviews for the LLM era, the Ash framework in production, and why great engineers become even greater with AI tools.Mike wraps up with hard-won startup wisdom: build painkillers not vitamins, learn to tell stories that move people, and understand that nobody buys on facts alone. Whether you're building energy infrastructure or SaaS products, this conversation offers practical perspective on scaling with small teams.Connect with Mike:- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-ratliff-3096571/Sponsors:- Paraxial.io: https://paraxial.io- Jido Discord: https://agentjido.xyz/discordSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor | — | ||||||
| 1/10/26 | ![]() Coby Benveniste & Daniel Garcia-Shulman on AI Marketing Agents | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Coby Benveniste and Daniel Garcia-Shulman from MarkeTeam.ai about building intelligent AI marketing agents with Elixir. They share their experience migrating from Python and React to a full Elixir and LiveView stack, and explain why the BEAM VM is ideal for powering autonomous agent workflows.Coby and Daniel explain their approach to agent architecture, including why they chose gen state machine over gen server for managing agent state machines. They walk through the ReAct pattern (reasoning, actions, observations) and how it maps naturally to Erlang's state machine behaviors. The conversation covers their custom marketing strategy LLM, how they use RAG patterns for brand context, and why specialized agents outperform single all-purpose agents.We explore the technical details of their stack, including how they handle DevOps without a dedicated team using mix release, their use of Fun with Flags for feature flagging, and how Broadway and Oban power their data pipelines. The discussion also covers practical workflows with Claude Code, context management using Beads, and the usage rules library for better LLM documentation.The episode wraps up with insights on hiring Elixir developers, the emerging field of AEO (Answer Engine Optimization), and advice for developers learning Elixir with LLM assistance. Whether you're building AI agents, exploring marketing automation, or curious about advanced Elixir patterns, this conversation offers practical insights from engineers shipping production AI systems.Resources Mentioned:- MarkeTeam AI: https://www.marketeam.ai- Beads (Claude Code context tool): https://github.com/steveyegge/beadsConnect with Coby & Daniel:- Coby: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coby-benveniste/- Daniel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielegsh/SUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 1/3/26 | ![]() Mikh Ahmed on SWARMMO | Mikh Ahmed joins me to talk about SWARMMO, a massively multiplayer online browser game he's building entirely with Elixir and Godot. After experiencing burnout from AWS Lambda and serverless tooling at a Canadian fintech startup, Mikh discovered Elixir and realized it was exactly what he'd been looking for to build his dream game project.We explore how the BEAM's actor model maps perfectly to game architecture, with individual player processes, hierarchical AI units that form squads and platoons, and a simulation where NPCs actively compete for territory. Mikh shares his experience going from zero Elixir knowledge to building a game server that can handle a thousand concurrent AI units while using only 4GB of RAM and 50% CPU.The conversation covers the realities of indie game development: failed crowdfunding campaigns that led to private support, the challenge of marketing when you'd rather be coding, and plans for a Steam release and version 1.0 launch. We also discuss the potential for LLM-powered NPC personalities, why minimal dependencies matter, and how game design psychology from board games applies to digital experiences.Connect with Mikh:- X: https://x.com/SWARMMOOFFICIAL- SWARMMO: https://swarmmo.games/?lang=enSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor | — | ||||||
| 12/21/25 | ![]() George Guimarães on Forecasting | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with George Guimarães about Soothsayer, his time series forecasting library inspired by NeuralProphet and built on Axon and NX for business data analysis.We explore how Soothsayer decomposes business data into seasonal components, handles holidays as special events, and uses neural networks to model nonlinear patterns. George explains why Elixir's ecosystem with NX, Axon, and Bumblebee provides unique advantages for machine learning workflows, allowing you to run models directly in your supervision tree without external infrastructure.The conversation expands into why Elixir is particularly well-suited for AI agent development. George shares insights from his current work building agentic commerce solutions, where the BEAM's actor model, fault tolerance, and message passing provide battle-tested patterns that other ecosystems are now trying to replicate for LLM workflows. We also discuss AEO (Agent Engine Optimization) as the new SEO, and how websites will evolve to serve both human and agent visitors.Whether you're interested in time series forecasting, building AI-powered applications in Elixir, or understanding why the BEAM's concurrency model is perfect for the agentic future, this conversation offers valuable perspective from an Elixir community OG.Resources Mentioned:- Soothsayer: https://github.com/georgeguimaraes/soothsayerConnect with George:- X: https://x.com/georgeguimaraes- Website: https://georgeguimaraes.comSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor | — | ||||||
| 12/13/25 | ![]() Isaak Tsalicoglou on REST API Design | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Isaak Tsalicoglou, author of Elixir Software Engineering. Isaak shares hard-won lessons from building production Elixir API clients, covering validation strategies, error handling approaches, authentication flows, and architectural patterns that actually work in the real world.We explore Isaak's journey back into programming through building internal tools for his family's industrial equipment business, and how that led to writing a comprehensive guide on REST API client development. He explains his approach to request validation, why he ultimately decided against using Ecto schemas for API responses, and the importance of resisting unnecessary complexity in software architecture.The conversation covers practical API design topics including how to structure clean RESTful routes, avoiding tight coupling between APIs and UIs, and finding the right balance between over-serving and under-serving data. Isaak also shares his thoughts on LLM-assisted development, explaining why he prefers using AI as a code reviewer rather than fully automated coding, and discusses his self-hosting infrastructure setup for privacy-conscious applications.This episode offers valuable insights for anyone building API clients in Elixir or thinking critically about software architecture decisions and their long-term implications.Resources Mentioned:- Elixir Software Engineering: https://leanpub.com/elixir-software-engineeringConnect with Isaak:- X: https://x.com/realMrLaminar- LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/tisaakxSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor | — | ||||||
| 12/6/25 | ![]() José Valim on Tidewave | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Elixir creator José Valim about Tidewave, the AI coding agent that lives inside your web framework. José shares the journey from falling in love with MCP to discovering its limitations, and how Tidewave solves the copy-paste problem that plagues AI-assisted development.We explore how Tidewave integrates directly with your browser to eliminate tedious workflows, automatically detecting exceptions and validating changes without manual intervention. José explains why the tool now supports Phoenix, Rails, Django, FastAPI, Flask, and Next.js, and how building one feature benefits all frameworks simultaneously. The conversation covers prompting strategies, context management, and the unique challenges of building Tidewave with Tidewave.José offers candid insights on why MCP has fundamental limitations for user experience, the security concerns around AI agents, and why Elixir's message-passing architecture makes it ideal for building agentic systems. We discuss the evolving type system in Elixir, code review workflows with AI, and the upcoming Tidewave features including multi-element inspection and symbol search.The episode concludes with José's perspective on transitioning from open source maintainer to product owner, collecting user feedback through Discord, and exciting developments with Tauri for building desktop applications with Elixir. This conversation provides valuable insights for developers interested in AI-powered tooling and the future of web development.Resources Mentioned:- Code Benchmark: https://github.com/Tencent-Hunyuan/AutoCodeBenchmarkConnect with José:- X: https://x.com/josevalim- Tidewave: https://tidewave.ai- Dashbit: https://dashbit.coSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 11/29/25 | ![]() Alex Koutmos on EagleMMS | In this episode, I chat with Alex Koutmos, author of Elixir Patterns and creator of numerous open source libraries, about building EagleMMS—a SaaS platform helping collision repair shops accurately calculate consumable costs for vehicle repairs. Alex shares his journey from two failed startups to building a profitable business with nearly a thousand customers.We discuss the outdated methods insurance companies use to calculate repair costs, the brutal reality of door-to-door sales, and how Alex's brother (a licensed auto body technician and appraiser) became his co-founder and sales partner. Alex explains why customer support load is heavier than expected when dealing with insurance company pushback and how they coach shops through negotiations.On the technical side, Alex walks through his evolution from a Vue SPA to a full LiveView application, building PWAs that work seamlessly on mobile, and why Elixir has never been a bottleneck for his business needs. We cover ETS caching strategies for performance, database backup lessons learned the hard way, and why he refuses to do standups. Alex also previews his upcoming books on financial analytics with Explorer and Scholar, plus a Nerves book entering beta soon.Connect with Alex:- X: https://x.com/akoutmos- Books: https://akoutmos.com/top/books/- EagleMMS: https://eaglemms.com/SUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com | — | ||||||
| 11/22/25 | ![]() Nathan Hessler on ExMex & engineering culture | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I chat with Nathan Hessler, an Elixir developer and organizer of the ExMex conference in Austin. Nathan shares his experience launching a successful regional conference just two weeks prior, offering invaluable insights for anyone considering organizing their own tech event.We explore the intricate logistics of conference planning, from choosing the perfect venue to managing sponsorships and hidden costs. Nathan reveals why he opted for a single-track format at Capital Factory, how he approached speaker selection to promote new voices in the community, and the creative process behind ExMex's clever Texas-themed naming convention.Our conversation shifts to Nathan's decade of experience in engineering leadership, where he shares wisdom on building healthy engineering cultures. We discuss the critical soft skills needed for technical management, strategies for creating trust and respect within teams, and how to foster environments where constructive debate thrives. Nathan emphasizes that the best engineering teams aren't built on shared hobbies but on mutual respect and the ability to engage in productive disagreement.The episode concludes with practical advice for aspiring conference organizers, including the importance of talking to other organizers, loving your speakers, and celebrating the unique character of your location. Nathan also reveals plans for RBQ, his upcoming Ruby conference scheduled for March 2025, continuing his mission to strengthen the Austin tech community through meaningful in-person connections.Resources Mentioned:- ExMex Conference: https://exmexconf.com/- RBQ Conference: Upcoming Ruby conference in Austin (March 2025)- Capital Factory: Conference venue in AustinConnect with Nathan:- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathanhessler/- Website: https://hesslerconsulting.com/- ExMex: https://exmexconf.com/SUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor: https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor- Discord: https://elixirmentor.com/discord | — | ||||||
| 10/18/25 | ![]() Daniil Popov on CyanView | In this episode of the Elixir Mentor Podcast, I sit down with Daniil Popov to discuss CyanView, a system that brings Phoenix LiveView to embedded devices for professional video production. We examine the challenges of creating unified camera control systems that work across 27+ different protocols from manufacturers like Sony, Canon, and RED.Daniil shares how CyanView enables real-time camera shading for major broadcast events including the Olympics, Super Bowl, and Le Mans races. We discuss the technical implementation of LiveView on resource-constrained 32-bit ARM processors, managing distributed systems with MQTT, and solving complex problems like socket reconnection and performance optimization on embedded devices.Our conversation covers the unique advantages of using Elixir for embedded systems, from binary pattern matching for protocol reverse engineering to supervision trees for fault tolerance. Daniil explains how they utilize nearly 80% of Elixir's capabilities—far more than typical web applications—including NIFs for C integration, custom FPGA modules for color correction, and practical approaches to creating responsive interfaces on limited hardware.The episode wraps up with discussion of the future of camera control technology, the challenges of working with proprietary protocols, and why Elixir's actor model and distributed computing capabilities make it uniquely suited for this complex problem space. Whether you're interested in embedded systems, LiveView applications, or the intersection of hardware and software, this conversation offers valuable perspectives on pushing Elixir beyond traditional web development.Resources Mentioned:- CyanView:https://cyanview.com/- Phoenix LiveView Documentation- MQTT Protocol and Mosquitto- Burrito and Tauri for Binary CompilationConnect with Daniil:- X/Twitter:https://x.com/mrpopov_comSUPPORT ELIXIR MENTOR- Elixir Mentor:https://elixirmentor.com/?utm_source=elixir-mentor | — | ||||||
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