Exploring Gigalixir: A Platform for Elixir Developers

News includes the release of LiveDebugger, an exciting new browser-based debugging tool for Phoenix LiveView applications and the announcement of Artifix for creating private Hex registries on S3 and CloudFront. We are also joined by Tim Knight, the CTO at Gigalixir, to get a peek inside the machine that is Gigalixir and learn more about how the platform specializes in providing an excellent Elixir deployment experience, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/241

Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/software-mansion-labs/live-debugger – New Phoenix LiveView debugging tool released providing browser-based debugging capabilities similar to React DevTools.
• https://bsky.app/profile/bcardarella.bsky.social/post/3lhn3y7vw4k2v – Confirmation that LiveDebugger works with LiveView Native.
• https://github.com/probably-not/artifix – New project Artifix announced, allowing creation of private Hex Registry on S3 and Cloudfront with customizable deployment patterns.
• https://gleam.run/news/gleam-gets-rename-variable/ – Gleam v1.8.0 released with significant Language Server enhancements and compiler improvements.
• https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic – Difftastic, a structural diff tool, now supports HEEx syntax highlighting.
• https://bsky.app/profile/crbelaus.com/post/3lhtpkkn4vc2l – Additional announcement about Difftastic's HEEx support.
• https://github.com/Wilfred/difftastic/pull/785 – Pull request adding HEEx support to Difftastic.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1887957394149310502 – Chris McCord shares a preview of integrated AI work at Fly.io, demonstrating web search capabilities.

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