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title: "Mark Ericksen · Elixir Community"
description: "Mark co-hosted the weekly Thinking Elixir podcast for six years and created the LangChain library for Elixir."
url: https://elixir.community/people/mark-ericksen/
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# Mark Ericksen

Host of Thinking Elixir

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> Mark co-hosted the weekly Thinking Elixir podcast for six years and created the LangChain library for Elixir.

Mark hosted Thinking Elixir, combining ecosystem news with interviews and practical discussion. The final episode closed six years of weekly shows and also discussed his work on Sagents and what he planned to build next.

## Known for

-   [**LangChain for Elixir** · github.com](https://github.com/brainlid/langchain)

## Talks

-   39 min
    
    ElixirConf US 2022 · Aug 31, 2022
    
    ### [Going Global with a Normal Phoenix App](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lBnAB_ClFs)
    
    Deploying a Phoenix application across regions with clustering and PubSub.
    
    [Mark Ericksen](https://elixir.community/people/mark-ericksen)
    

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## Podcasts

-   [**Thinking Elixir** · podcast.thinkingelixir.com](https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/309)

Profile last updated October 7, 2026

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