Alembic's team will be at the GigCityElixir 2025 in Chattanooga, USA in May! Our team will be sharing insights in both an in-depth one-day workshop and two conference talks, focusing on enhancing Elixir application development with Ash and Igniter.
Our Alembians are looking forward to meeting you and answering your Ash and Igniter questions at GigCityElixir!
Ash Framework Training
Zach Daniel and Josh Price
This full-day workshop introduces the Ash Framework, a tool for building maintainable and scalable Elixir applications. Ash Framework is a refreshingly different way to craft efficient and maintainable Elixir applications. Dive deep into Ash’s capabilities and explore how it can streamline your development process and enhance your application’s architecture. We’ll build a real-world application from the ground up, leveraging Ash’s unique features in this class.
This hands-on, interactive workshop is ideal for Elixir developers looking to take their skills to the next level. While we’ll cover Ash from the ground up, a working knowledge of Elixir will help you get the most out of this intensive, hands-on experience.
Book your seat now: https://ti.to/groxio-llc/gce2025
Smarter Apps with Ash, LLMs and the Model Context Protocol
Josh Price
Imagine if you could not only build full stack web applications really quickly. Then picture them being way smarter than the apps you build now. This talk explores how combining Ash Framework's powerful introspection capabilities with GenAI and modern LLMs creates a new possibility in application development – one where applications become intelligent conversational partners rather than static interfaces. Anthropic's new Model Context Protocol is a bidirectional API for LLMs and applications to talk to each other. It's a new standard for interoperation with any LLM or agent. He'll look at the Ash framework for building ambitious applications in Elixir and look at how the Model Context Protocol can give Ash and other apps access to a range of LLM integrations so we can make fundamentally more intelligent and useful applications.
The Next Dimension of Developer Experience
Zach Daniel
Igniter is a project patching and code generation framework for Elixir. It allows us to seamlessly install and upgrade our packages. By leveraging AST-based code patching, library authors can provide intelligent installer and upgraders, massively improving the developer experience for getting started with a new Elixir tool.
The talk delves into Igniter's capabilities, exploring from basic to advanced use cases, its impact on developer experience, and its potential to transform the way we work with our Elixir applications every day.
