220: The EEF Has Your Regulatory Back
Thinking Elixir Podcast
Navigating Tech and Governance in Erlang
This chapter explores the intersection of technology and governance through a conversation centered on the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. The guest shares their journey in the tech industry, discussing EEF's role and the community's development, alongside technical advancements in the Erlang VM.
News includes the archiving of the “Phoenix Sync” project, a major update to Gettext that enhances compilation efficiency, the release of ErrorTracker v0.2.6 with new features like error pruning and ignoring, and José Valim highlighting UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI. We were also joined by Alistair Woodman, a board member of the EEF (Erlang Ecosystem Foundation), who explained the EEF's recent efforts to stay ahead of legislation and technical regulatory shifts that may impact developers soon. Alistair discussed the changing regulatory landscape in the US and the EU due to high-profile exploits, outages, and nation-state supply chain attacks. We learned how the EEF supports Elixir and BEAM developers and what they need from the community now, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/220
Elixir Community News
- https://github.com/josevalim/sync – The "Phoenix Sync" project has been archived with no immediate explanation yet.
- https://github.com/elixir-gettext/gettext/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v0260 – Gettext has a big update to version 0.26.0 which includes a more efficient compilation.
- https://github.com/elixir-cldr/cldr – Gettext feels similar to how ExCldr allows defining a custom backend.
- https://elixirstatus.com/p/TvydI-errortracker-v026-has-been-released – ErrorTracker v0.2.6 has been released with key improvements like a global error tracking disable flag, automatic resolved error pruning, and error ignorer.
- https://github.com/mimiquate/tower – Tower is a flexible error tracker for Elixir applications that listens for errors and reports them to configured reporters like email, Rollbar, or Slack.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1832509464240374127 – José highlighted some UX issues with ChatGPT's new UI, mentioning struggles with concurrent updates.
- https://x.com/josevalim/status/1833176754090897665 – José postponed publishing a video on optimistic updates with LiveView due to an Apple announcement.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples – A new WebRTC example was added to the "Mix Install Examples" project.
- https://github.com/wojtekmach/mix_install_examples/pull/42 – The WebRTC example shows how to use the
ex_webrtcElixir package in a small script, compatible withMix.install/2. - https://github.com/elixir-webrtc/ex_webrtc – The Elixir package used for the WebRTC example.
- https://x.com/taylorotwell/status/1831668872732180697 – Laravel raised a $57M Series A in partnership with Accel, likely related to their Laravel Cloud hosting platform.
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Discussion Resources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Resilience_Act
- https://news.apache.org/foundation/entry/open-source-community-unites-to-build-cra-compliant-cybersecurity-processes
- https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/CISA%20Secure%20by%20Design%20Pledge_508c.pdf
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Final-ONCD-Technical-Report.pdf
- https://www.infoworld.com/article/2336216/white-house-urges-developers-to-dump-c-and-c.html
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE_marking
- https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/services/acquisitions/tail-f.html
- https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act
- https://www.nist.gov/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XZ_Utils_backdoor
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4j
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbleed
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike_incident
- https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2024/06/stanfords-deborah-sivas-on-scotus-loper-decision-overturning-chevrons-40-years-of-precedent-and-its-impact-on-environmental-law
- https://openssf.org/
- https://www.fcc.gov/broadbandlabels
- https://www.cve.org/
- https://erlef.org/wg/security
Guest Information
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/alistair-woodman-51934433 – Alistair Woodman on LinkedIn
- awoodman@erlef.org
- http://erlef.org/ – Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Website
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