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📄 Building a document factory in Elixir

In this post, we show how we can build a fast prototype for a “document factory” in Elixir, watching a folder for JSON, turning the data into Tailwind-styled HEEx templates with charts, then streaming them through a GenStage pipeline to ChromicPDF for concurrent, fault-tolerant HTML → PDF conversion. If that sounds up your alley, give it a look!

📈 Elixir, a good fit for financial risk management applications?

Elixir is a great language for building servers and web applications. But can it be used effectively for building applications that require the use of a scientific stack? Those would usually be built using Python, given the large ecosystem that language has to offer. Since falling in love with Elixir, I've wondered if Python could be ditched for the specific use case of building finance/risk-management-related applications. Can it? Let's explore!