Ali Shirvani

The next challenge is convincing my teammate not to use Spring Boot.

Using the DOT language to document the project’s supervision tree

#MyElixirStatus

Can Stratospheric Airships Outperform Satellites? Could SoftBank's solar-powered airships redefine connectivity by replacing ground towers? Dive into the future of telecom.

Providing 4G and 5G connectivity via an airship operating at 20 km altitude:

spectrum.ieee.org/high-altitud...

Heroku replaces its Erlang-based router with Go I don’t have insider information anymore and I haven’t worked at Heroku since early 2017. I had assumed they had already replaced the router. There was two halves to hermes. The first was vegur, the ...

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One of my previous companies decided to switch the product language from Elixir to Go. One of the reasons behind this decision was the difficulty in finding and onboarding Elixir developers. I'd love to hear your thoughts or solutions for addressing this challenge.

A Sunday in August Steven Searcy’s poem from IEEE Spectrum’s July 2025 magazine

Great article about bandwidth demand and its consequences:

spectrum.ieee.org/a-sunday-in-...

GitHub - inertiajs/inertia-phoenix: The Phoenix adapter for Inertia.js. The Phoenix adapter for Inertia.js. Contribute to inertiajs/inertia-phoenix development by creating an account on GitHub.

I use the inertia-phoenix adapter. Svelte compiles the pages to static assets, and I just use the Phoenix web server.

github.com/inertiajs/in...

I usually use Elixir to develop infrastructure services. However, sometimes I need to develop some UI for configuration or visualizing system status. Recently, I switched from LiveView to InertiaJS and Svelte because of the lack of ready-to-use web components in LiveView.

Release v1.19.0-rc.0 · elixir-lang/elixir Type system improvements Type checking of protocol dispatch and implementations This release also adds type checking when dispatching and implementing protocols. For example, string interpolation i...

Elixir 1.19 is a banger! Honestly I'm so pleased with the direction that #ElixirLang is going. My programs just get faster and more correct every time. I just know that we're in good hands. Thank you to everyone on the team for your hard work!

github.com/elixir-lang/...

Let’s recap:

BBC uses custom Elixir DSLs to serve

📈 600m+ monthly unique views
💻 12 servers (down from 100
🧑‍💻 7 #elixirlang engineers!

Mind blowing! 🤯

France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...

EU is moving away from reliance on US tech companies, rather than replacing them with proprietary alternatives, they are investing in open-source solutions instead.

EU’s new alternative to Google Docs & Microsoft Word is a fully open-source, copyright-free platform.
www.techspot.com/news/107225-...

MemoryDB: A fully managed, in-memory cloud database offering strong consistency, 99.99% availability, microsecond reads & millisecond writes. Built for performance & durability. Learn more:

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Evolution of Network Automation with Itential Presented by Peter Sprygada at Tech Field Day #NFD36 deep dive on how the Itential provides a platform to deploy full workflows in network automation. This presentation outlines the 10 year process of...

Evolution of Network Automation by Peter Sprygada at @techfieldday.com #NFD36 showing how Itential deploys automation workflows.
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I convinced another colleague to learn Elixir and Erlang. After seeing the development speed and the readily available tools for telecom projects, such as the Diameter stack and ASN.1 compiler, he was convinced to learn Elixir and Erlang.

Screenshot of my Bluesky profile, showing @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io as the handle

Developers, do you want to verify yourself here but don't have a personal domain? You can use your GitHub account! 🦋🐱

I temporarily renamed myself to @nicolo-ribaudo.github.io :)

Elixir Livebook is a secret weapon for prototyping. :)

#Elixir #MyElixirStatus

This article refers to interesting studies conducted by Slack, Atlassian, and McKinsey. It effectively links these studies to one another and concludes with actionable best practices shared by Shopify, Chaos Monkey, and Asana.

I’ve switched my note-taking method over the past two months from Org-roam to the traditional pen-and-paper method. I’ve noticed that I can remember things better now.

YouTube video by Tech Field Day What's New with Arista in 2024

Interesting introduction to Arista Cloud Vision at @techfieldday.com #NFD36 by Jeff Raymond. How a software first mentality with an API driven devices and mgmt system makes managing networks easier.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOdE...