Alembic - 2025 in review
Gareth Sutton
18 December 2025 · 4 min read
2025 has been a huge year for Alembic! When we looked back on the year, there has been some amazing client projects, lots of open source contribution and many community contributions to thought leadership and learning together.
Client Stories
We love to share the stories of how we have helped our clients build future proof software. While we can’t pick a favourite, the highest traffic client story was definitely “Transforming Healthcare Communication With Elixir and Ash”. This one showed how one of our clients reduced their infrastructure costs by nearly 85% all while speeding up their time to market, no wonder people liked that one!
Open source:
We have ‘open source in our DNA’. Our team made over 10,000 commits to open source projects this year, with some highlight being the obvious projects - Ash, Ash Authentication, and some a great new projects Cinder and Clarity.
Community Contributions
We learn a lot about how to build future proof software through our project delivery for different domains around the world… and we love to share what we learn. Our team gave 17 conference talks and workshops around the world, and contributed 7 meetup talks as well! Some highlights include all of the Goatmire talks and Josh Price’s keynote’s at CodeBEAM Berlin and ElixirConf US. We also ran an inaugural Ash Summit alongside Goatmire, which had a great turnout and lots of great feedback.
Thought Leadership
At Alembic, our mission is to create simpler software for everyone, and we are particularly fond of the ecosystem around Elixir and Ash Framework. To help people get to know the power and benefits, we share a lot of thought leadership material. This year Alembians wrote 18 blogs, gave 6 podcast interviews, and published 1 book! The team is really sharing the love of simple software.
In 2026, we look forward to delivering more future proof software for our clients, helping the industry to navigate changing architectures & experiences, growing the Elixir & Ash Framework ecosystem and learning alongside the community.
We wish everyone a safe and happy end to 2025 and we look forward to meeting you in 2026!
Here are the most popular case studies and blogs, alongside links to all of our community contributions in 2025!
Top 5 Case Studies (most viewed)
- Transforming Healthcare Communication with Elixir and Ash Framework
- From Paper to Precision Workflows
- Accelerating Automotive Service Innovation Through Legacy System Replacement
- Lando Solutions: Improving resilience and scale for a startup with Ash
- Sustainable Solutions for Energy-intensive AI Driven Compute Workloads
Top 5 Blogposts (most viewed)
- Ash AI: A comprehensive LLM toolbox for Ash Framework
- Understanding Multitenancy in Ash Framework: A Practical Guide
- Subdomain-Based Multi-Tenancy in Phoenix: An Implementation Guide
- AshEvents: Event Sourcing Made Simple For Ash Framework
- The Essence of Ash Framework
Books (!)
Rebecca Le and Zach Daniel’s book made the Pragmatic Programmers best seller list!
You can buy the Ash Framework book here.
Conferences and workshops
- Talk: Zach - The Next Dimension of Developer Experience
- Workshop: Zach + Josh - Supercharge Your Elixir Apps with Ash
- Sponsor: Stone level
- Talk: Josh - Smarter Apps with Ash, LLMs and the Model Context Protocol
- Talk: Zach - The Next Dimension of Developer Experience
- Workshop: Zach and Josh - Ash Framework Training
- Sponsor: tshirts
- Talk: Zach - Ash Framework: The Event Horizon
- Keynote: A New Case for Elixir
- Workshop: Josh and Zach - Ash AI Hackathon
- Talk: James Harton - Reactor Under the Hood: Building a Graph-Based Saga Orchestrator in Elixir
- Talk: Mike - Gleam + TypeScript: Full-Stack Type Safety With Inertia-Wisp
- Keynote: Josh - A Survival Guide for the AI Age
Interviews
Elixir Mentor interview - Zach Daniel on Ash and Ash AI
Elixir Mentor interview - Barnabas on Ash Core Development