Yes! Phoenix creator here. We need to give the blog some love, but in 2015 we had a big year. We released the "Programming Phoenix" book for pragprog and our big "Phoenix Presence" feature, a CRDT backed eventually consistent process group:
https://dockyard.com/blog/2016/03/25/what-makes-phoenix-pres...
We also have been working on Phoenix 1.3 which I laid out in my ElixirConf keynote. Ask me anything!