About this episode
News includes Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4 and LiveView 1.1.0-rc.3 with igniter upgrader support, new libraries including deps_changelog and the Hog process debugging tool by Alex Koutmos, Fly.io's announcement of managed Postgres, an incredible conference talk about Waterpark - a healthcare system built on the BEAM that achieved 100% uptime for 5 years and running, tips on using Elixir compiler directives for function inlining, the full ElixirConf US 2025 schedule with keynotes from José Valim and Chris McCord, CodeBeam Europe speaker announcements, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/262
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https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3ltz36vf4ts2u – Phoenix 1.8.0-rc.4 and LiveView 1.1.0-rc.3 released with igniter upgrader for LiveView 1.0 users
https://tomkonidas.com/repo-transact/ – New Ecto 3.13 Repo.transact/2 used in generators
Added security.md guide for security best practices and fetch() support for LongPoll in Service Workers
https://github.com/serpent213/deps_changelog – New library called deps_changelog that finds additions to dependency CHANGELOG files upon update
https://x.com/akoutmos/status/1935463503164309611 – Alex Koutmos announces new Elixir process debugging library called "Hog"
https://github.com/akoutmos/hog – Hog library used to pinpoint and deal with memory hungry processes, helps track down OOM issues
https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3ltlmmz4hq72n – Fly.io announces managed Postgres with automatic backups, failover, and monitoring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm4K-vvt0 – Waterpark conference talk - Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors achieving 100% uptime for 5
