Parker & Shannon

Robust Job Processing Oban is a background job system built in Elixir and Postgres, and packed with enterprise grade features, real-time monitoring with Oban Web, and complex workflow management with Oban Pro.

This conference is brought to you by .. a library.

But not just any library. Oban Pro is a supporting sponsor of Goatmire Elixir. One of the most well-respected tools in the Elixir toolbox. A no-brainer for robust job processing, workflows and much more.

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Making of an Elixir conference It all started when I visited Gig City Elixir. Or maybe it started when I did a workshop in preparation for a Code BEAM in Stockholm. But that actually started from reading Priya Parker's book The…

I love behind-the-scenes type stuff.

I try to share my experiences so far with creating Goatmire Elixir (and NervesConf EU). Hope it is helpful to anyone trying to pull together a conference or event.

underjord.io/making-of-an...
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The Oban Murders by Parker Selbert, Shannon Selbert

goatmire.com/talk/the-oba...

Amid the speculation of sensational job deaths, we invite you review the data and solve "The Oban Murders" in Sweden!

#Goatmire #ElixirLang

The full CHANGELOG, including a link to the upgrade guide: oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6...

Oban Pro v1.6 is out! Thanks to everybody that helped refine the release candidates.

A refresher on what landed:

🗂️ Sub-Workflows
🌊 Cascading workflows
🪴 Grafting sub-workflows
🖼️ Workflow context
🧰 Overhauled partitioning
🧨 Global burst mode
🍋 Preserve queue updates

Optimized a worst-case Postgres query from 75s down to 1.5ms...it's unbelievably satisfying and horrifying to make something 50,000x faster 😓

Probably the highest praise Oban has ever received! 💛

Finally, if you're an Oban Pro user, take a look at the "Adoption" guide for tips on fully utilizing Pro features to unlock your application:

oban.pro/docs/pro/ado...

Next, if your Oban instance is ship-shape for production and usage is growing, read the "Scaling" guide for tips on reducing load and boosting performance:

hexdocs.pm/oban/scaling...

🗞️ A handful of guides to help unlock your Oban usage:

First, if you're using Oban in production, definitely read the "Ready for Production" guide! It contains some important tips to ensure you have healthy, debuggable Oban usage:

hexdocs.pm/oban/ready_f...

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Big step forward - @repobot.app now uses Oban for GitHub event processing based a very simple event system. Webhook controller stores events with payloads in the db and immediately schedules workers. Nothing fancy but it's progress! 🤓

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Sentry Elixir SDK 11.0.0 was just released with beta support for Tracing using #OpenTelemetry! 🎉

Please give it a go and report any issues you may find - this is early stage and feedback is much appreciated!

#ElixirLang #Observability #Monitoring #DevOps

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Elixir Outreach stipend for speakers and trainers We announce the Elixir Outreach stipend in partnership with Dashbit, Oban, and the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation

Love the initiative from @elixir-lang.org @theerlef.bsky.social @dashbit.bsky.social @oban.pro with stipends for bringing BEAM talks to other communities!

I once did one at @oredev.org - and well with this, all the more reason to do it again there or elsewhere! :)

elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/06...

Oban Pro v1.6.0-rc.5 is out without any new features, _just_ performance and bug fixes. Barring any large bug reports this is the final RC before v1.6!

oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6...

I have been busy doing too much community and ecosystem stuff to be a good prospector and salesman. If you think I could be helpful to your business, holler. We do big picture consulting on Elixir projects and their teams as well as hands on keyboard work.

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It's that time of year again: Stack Overflow survey!

Do your part and represent your community!

#ElixirLang

stackoverflow.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Hex downloads with proper cardinality per application 😁

Oban Pro v1.6.0-rc.4 is out with important bug fixes, performance improvements, and a powerful new workflow feature called "grafting".

If you've ever needed to inject multiple jobs into the middle of a workflow at runtime, take a look at grafting 👀

oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6...

Robust Job Processing Oban is a background job system built in Elixir and Postgres, and packed with enterprise grade features, real-time monitoring with Oban Web, and complex workflow management with Oban Pro.

Or maybe oban.pro, which predates them both and river is largely a port of 🙂

If you do stuff in Elixir, Erlang, Gleam, AtomVM or adjacently. You can just ASK to be on BEAM Radio (https://beamrad.io). We do reach out to people but very few people ask. Only the spammers in my inbox.

We want to show more of what happens in the ecosystem so don't be shy :)
#elixirlang #erlang

#ElixirLang ❤️ @theerlef.bsky.social

I firmly believe the EEF will play an ever increasing role in the success of the Elixir ecosystem, and I intend to do my part to support them in this effort. Our community is growing and the need for coordination on things that impact us all grows alongside it. 👇

Last call for DORS/CLUC! Join me this week in Zagreb for two days of open source conversations. Catch my "Tell me a Story" talk live, hear @oban.pro of the Oban team talk about sustainable OSS, and see many other great talks.

See you there 🤞

www.dorscluc.org

The architecture of Oban Web at #ElixirConfEU #ElixirLang

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Kevin Bolton sharing ways he’s using his magic programming tools!
@elixir-lang.org @oban.pro @ash-hq.org #phoenixLiveview

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Amazing addition! The Oban dashboard looks great, especially automatically showing outliers 👏

Elixir is not owned by Big Tech

I enjoy an ecosystem that is not funded by a megacorp. How does Elixir continue to exist?
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YouTube video by Mark Ericksen Thinking Elixir Podcast 251: SSH Vulnerability and Cookies are Changing

News includes a critical vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH, @JoseValim's new project teaser, Oban Pro's new "Cascade Mode", Semaphore Ci open-sourcing their Elixir platform, code sandboxing options, and more! #ElixirLang #Erlang www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG0l...

Any job that isn't in a "finished" state can be cancelled (hexdocs.pm/oban/Oban.ht...). Indicating that in the state diagram seemed noisy, but perhaps worth it for accuracy?

Thanks! They're made with monodraw, same as the diagrams in the Pro Composition guide (oban.pro/docs/pro/1.6...).

Not keen on pulling down a js dependency for mermaid diagrams, and mermaid's svg output is too heavy.