News includes the BEAM runtime fitting into just 16MB for the GRiSP Nano prototype, the BBC using Elixir to serve most of their web and mobile traffic, GenStage's pull-based design delivering 50% performance improvements, a new PDF data extraction library that leverages Python through PythonX, AppSignal's guide to deploying Phoenix with Kamal, an Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in applications, Peter Solnica's new inflection library for word transformations, Fly.io announcing Docker Compose compatibility for multi-container deployments, and the full ElixirConf 2025 agenda going live with discount tickets available, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/263

Elixir Community News

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https://www.grisp.org/blog/posts/2025-06-11-grisp-nano-codebeam-sto – GRiSP Nano prototype shows BEAM can run in just 16MB of memory
https://grisp.myshopify.com/collections/frontpage/products/grisp-2 – GRiSP 2 tiny computer available now for BEAM applications
https://bsky.app/profile/ettomatic.bsky.social/post/3lua7lpcxi22s – Bluesky post announcing BBC's ElixirConf EU talk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99QDd0_C20 – How Elixir Powers the BBC From PoC to Production at Scale by Ettore Berardi
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Software-Engineer/24846-en_GB/ – BBC job posting for Senior Software Engineer using Elixir
https://x.com/accomazzo/status/1945622634731114801 – GenStage's pull-based design explanation with 6-minute video showing 50% speed improvement
https://x.com/nelsonmestevao/status/1947087502902231412 – X post announcing the pdf_extractor library for data extraction from PDFs
https://github.com/nelsonmestevao/pdf_extractor/ – PDF data extraction library for Elixir
https://hexdocs.pm/pdf_extractor/readme.html – Documentation for pdf_extractor library
https://github.com/jsvine/pdfplumber – Python pdfplumber library that pdf_extractor leverages
https://github.com/livebook-dev/pythonx – PythonX library for seamless Python integration with Elixir
https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/244 – Interview with Jonatan Kłosko about PythonX
https://blog.appsignal.com/2025/06/10/deploying-phoenix-applications-with-kamal.html – AppSignal article on deploying Phoenix applications with Kamal
https://kamal-deploy.org/ – Kamal deployment tool - Capistrano for Containers
https://github.com/elixirschool/school_house – Elixir School open source repository
https://elixirschool.com/en/lessons/misc/lua – Elixir School lesson on embedding Lua in Elixir applications
https://hexdocs.pm/lua/ – Elixir Lua package documentation
https://github.com/tv-labs/lua – Elixir friendly wrapper around luerl Erlang package
https://github.com/rvirding/luerl – Luerl Erlang package for Lua integration
https://bsky.app/profile/solnic.dev/post/3luaizmyjvt2c – Peter Solnica announces new Inflection library on Bluesky
https://github.com/solnic/drops_inflector – Drops Inflector library for word inflections in Elixir
https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3lt4bjcouwn2y – Fly.io announces Docker Compose compatibility
https://community.fly.io/t/docker-compose-compatibility-the-journey-begins/25285 – Fly.io community post about Docker Compose compatibility journey
https://community.fly.io/t/using-containers-with-flyctl/24729 – Guide on using containers with flyctl
https://fly.io/docs/machines/guides-examples/multi-container-machines/ – Fly.io documentation for multi-container machines
https://elixirstream.dev/gendiff – David's Elixir gendiff project
https://elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2025 full agenda now live
https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – ElixirConf tickets with ThinkingElixir discount code for 10% off

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263: Thinking Elixir 263: BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big