A bet on Elixir
Koushik Dasika on his first experiment putting Elixir into production.
A clip from Kodsnack 722 - listen where you get podcasts, or at kodsnack.se
#elixir #beam #erlang #podcast

A bet on Elixir
Koushik Dasika on his first experiment putting Elixir into production.
A clip from Kodsnack 722 - listen where you get podcasts, or at kodsnack.se
#elixir #beam #erlang #podcast
CVE-2026-89422: Erlang/OTP ssl TLS 1.3 client auth bypass. Malicious server impersonates any host, no cert required. CVSS 10. Patch under review. Audit your ssl:connect now. https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-89422/ #CVE #infosec #Erlang
⚗️ Elixir Tip #33 - URI parsing ⚗️
The URI module provides you with a plethora of functions for dealing with URIs. You can parse URIs, encode/decode query params, and generate strings from structs!
Same CEO two different companies: Is there a relation between $TSLA $SPCX?
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Is their performance related? How will that evolve in the future? Let’s see their current 15-, 20-, 30-, and 50-day stock return correlations.
CVE-2026-68956 Erlang/OTP ssh DoS: authenticated attackers exhaust node memory via unlimited session channels. CVSS 6.5. Patch under review, no fix yet. Audit exposed SSH nodes now: https://www.valtersit.com/cve/CVE-2026-68956/ #CVE #infosec #Erlang
⚗️ Elixir Tip #32 - Dealing with Zip files ⚗️
Did you know that out of the box Erlang provides utilities for dealing with Zip files? Take a look and see how easy it
is to deal with Zip archives!
Biggest mover last Tuesday from "Mag 7" was $META with a percent change of 3.24% 📈
Seeing all the "Mag 7" 30-day standard deviations, which one seems the riskiest to you?
I'm in the process of relaunching Beam it's blog - I'd love to chat to Elixir folks about projects, technology, events, books etc.. that are exciting you right now.
Any qs or to register interest DM or reply below :)
Erlang: a programming language built in a Swedish telecom lab in the 1980s, ended up running the biggest messaging app WhatsApp. Told by its co-creator. #erlang
⚗️ Elixir Tip #31 - Structured Logs ⚗️
Did you know that your log statements can be structured either by using a keyword lists or by using maps?
Biggest laggard last Monday from "Mag 7" was META 📉
See their current 30-day zero-benchmark Sharpe ratios. Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal?
In this week's Kodsnack, Koushik Dasika talks about working with Elixir - from the first weekend proof of concept to production and training others.
kodsnack.se/722/
#elixir #erlang #beam #podcast
A little peak into what you can do with the latest version of Explorer 😉. Using the `rle_id` function you can take the recession time series from FRED and create start/stop markers for each recessionary period. Working with time series data using Explorer and Elixir is 😍.
Explorer version 0.13.0 was just released! This was a BIG release that brings Explorer up to date with the latest version of Polars and also adds a partition function as well as a run-length encoding function for your data frames! hex.pm/packages/ex...
⚗️ Elixir Tip #30 - @derive inspect protocol ⚗️
Did you know that you can implement your own version of the inspect protocol for your structs? Using the derive attribute you can specify which fields from the struct are visible when inspecting the struct.
Biggest Winner Last Friday from the "Mag 7" was $MSFT 📈
Will this trend continue today or will there be a reversal? See how Microsoft's returns compared with the remaining Mag 7 stocks.
⚗️ Elixir Tip #29 - IEx Sigil Help ⚗️
If you are looking for the IEx help docs for sigils...you may be sad to see an error by inputting h ~s :(. Instead, you should pull up the help docs by doing h sigil_*!
How is the "Volume King" $NVDA doing? 📈
Nvidia continues to dominate trading volume and is one of the most closely watched names in the stock market. Here’s a look at its latest candlestick action and key price moves traders are watching.
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Same CEO two different companies: Is there a relation between $TSLA $SPCX?
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX. Is their performance related? How will that evolve in the future? Let’s see their current 15-, 20-, 30-, and 50-day stock return correlations.