Articles tagged elixir

February 3, 2026 elixir python tutorial

Bridging Elixir and Python with Oban

Using Oban to seamlessly exchange durable jobs between Elixir and Python applications through a shared PostgreSQL database.

September 18, 2025 elixir pro tutorial

Unlocking Agentic Workflows with Oban Pro

Reliable agentic workflows in Oban Pro: cascading jobs, human-in-the-loop checkpoints, dynamic grafting, and transactional guarantees.

April 21, 2025 elixir pro tutorial

Weaving Stories with Cascading Workflows

Using cascading workflows with context sharing pipelines to generate a collection of illustrated children's stories.

January 16, 2025 elixir release web

OSS Oban Web and Oban v2.19

From open sourcing Oban Web, to releasing Oban with MySQL support, Web v2.11, and plan simplifications

March 16, 2024 elixir pro web

The Oban Pros—Our Story on the Changelog Podcast

We joined The Changelog to discuss the legacy of Oban Pro, Elixir as a mature niche, and the beauty of mom-and-pop lifestyle businesses.

February 27, 2024 elixir tutorial

Enhancing Oban Job Error Reporting

Tips and techniques to make Oban job errors easier to identify, differentiate, and diagnose in monitoring systems like Sentry

January 16, 2024 elixir pro performance

Optimizing Connections and Bloat with Oban Pro

Survey the recent additions to Oban Pro that drastically reduce transactions, pool contention, database bloat, and overall system load for high throughput systems

October 20, 2022 elixir tutorial

Oban Starts Where Tasks End

Why Elixir's Task module isn't enough for critical background work, and how Oban provides the persistence, retries, scheduling, and distribution you need.

June 6, 2022 elixir performance

One Million Jobs a Minute with Oban

Explore Oban's performance boundaries and system load through a journey to processing millions of jobs a minute.

May 18, 2021 elixir tutorial

Using Oban to License Oban

A behind-the-scenes look at how we use Oban to run the live dashboard demo, process payments, manage licenses, and handle webhooks reliably.

May 6, 2021 elixir pro tutorial

Composing Jobs with Oban Pro

A breakdown of Oban Pro's specialized workers including Batch for parallel execution, Chunk for grouped processing, and Workflow for multi-step job pipelines.

April 21, 2021 elixir tutorial

Self Hosting Oban Packages

How we built a self-hosted hex repo for Oban Web and Oban Pro using hex_core and a global CDN, with instructions for updating your config.