This week’s category: Elixir & AI
From practical tools to new ideas, these talks explore how Elixir & AI work together.
Getting Elixir on the AI Flywheel
— Isaac Yonemoto
Turning AI into an Engineering discipline
— Thomas Millar
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Posts by Nathan Hessler
Quick update on ExMex videos:
We’re taking this week off from releases while we wrapped up **RBQConf**.
Back next week with more talks.
Appreciate the patience 🙏
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Games in Ruby? it’s totally doable with DragonRuby. Thanks Amir for a great talk and great framework.
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David gives us something to think about w.r.t. AI and measuring its performance/outcomes like anything else in software development.
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Making the case for Open Telemetry and Observabilty in Ruby and Rails. Excellent talk from Austin’s own, Ariel Valentin.
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Yarik walks us through production race conditions that can happen even with Transactions in place.
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Metaverse? no thanks! Fediverse is pretty cool. Thanks Tom for a wonderful talk to start the second day!
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PJ reminds takes down memory lane, reminding us what life was like before git and why git is more important than ever.
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Bart shows us how to think through building resilient background jobs. Great talk with solid examples.
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Chris built an AI feature into his companies app. He shares the steps he took to implement, orchestrate, track, and protect outcomes.
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RBQ 2026 is in full swing.
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Szymon shows us how mutation testing and Mutant gem can help increase confidence in a code base we’re less and less confident in.
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Here we Go! Kinsey kicks it off with a great talk on what we were thinking about. An extensive survey of all the ways to use and incorporate AI Agents into your flows.
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If you are in Austin for @rbqconf.bsky.social and you'd like to join us - we are having a Happy Hour tonight at Higbie's! Join us for cocktails, mocktails, and fun!
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RBQ Conf is tomorrow.
Safe travels to everyone heading to Austin. We can’t wait to get started.
See you in the morning.
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This week's category: Managing Complexity
From growing systems to tangled architectures, these talks are about keeping things understandable at scale.
Specifying an Elixir system — Raúl Chouza
Peeling Away Complexity — Mitchell Hanberg
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We're happy to announce Typesense as a Gold Sponsor of RBQ 2026
Typesense is an open-source search engine to build blazing fast site and app search experiences. typesense.org
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This week’s category: Data Processing
Not Just ML: Other Uses for Nx
— Chris Ertel
When Elixir Meets Genomics: Processing Large Datasets Efficiently
— Austin Saunders
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RBQ Conf is next week.
Lightning Talks are still open, and we’ve added an activities page with things to do around Austin outside the conference.
We also still have a few tickets left.
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This week’s category: Elixir Fundamentals
- Enumerables under the hood — Brett Beaty
- Let it Crash. No, Really! — Doug VonMoser
These talks cover core ideas that make Elixir such a powerful tool.
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We’re extending Medium pricing for 24 hours.
It now ends March 5th at 12:00pm CT.
If you meant to grab your RBQ Conf ticket before pricing moves up, this is your window.
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ExMex 2025 videos are rolling out!
We’re starting today with the keynotes.
Note: due to a small technical hiccup, live coding portions weren’t captured.
More releases coming soon.
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Another three speakers joining us at RBQ Conf.
This week’s spotlight:
- Amir Rajan
- Bart de Water
- Chris Gratigny
Medium pricing ends soon if you’ve been meaning to grab your ticket.
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Last, but not least — two more speakers joining RBQ Conf.
- Meghan Gutshall
- Tom Brown
That rounds out this year’s lineup.
Medium pricing ends soon if you’ve been meaning to grab your ticket.
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Lightning Talks: open.
Ruby Passports & Stamps: ready.
Medium pricing ends in under two weeks.
Join us in Austin.
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The RBQ Conf schedule is live.
Two days of Ruby talks, hallway conversations, and time to connect.
We’ve also made Community Pricing more transparent on the site — with clear discounts for students, folks who are Open to Work, and teams.
Take a look:
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This week’s RBQ Conf speaker highlights:
- Cristian Planas
- Yatish Mehta
- Szymon Fiedler
Community Pricing remains available for teams, students, and folks who are Open to Work.
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