News includes Chris McCord's speedrun video on adding a self-hosted llama2-7b to an existing application, Tyler Young's release of parameterized_test v0.2.0, major updates in Oban Pro's new launch week, potential for CRDTs being added to Mnesia DB, Zach Daniel's blog post on Igniter for code generation, and a preview of ElixirConf 2024 with exciting speakers and topics, and more!

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https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1815409966611648705 – Chris McCord does a YouTube video speedrun of adding a self-hosted llama2-7b to an existing application. He's running it against Ollama and making REST API calls to it, showing how to run the Ollama server on a private Fly.io IPv6 network using auto-stop and auto-start features.
https://x.com/TylerAYoung/status/1815391743484870980 – Tyler Young shared a new release of his library parameterized_test, version v0.2.0, which includes support for longer test names, comments in tables, and Obsidian markdown table format.
https://github.com/s3cur3/parameterized_test – GitHub repository for Tyler Young's parameterized_test library that makes it easier to create tests using multiple combinations in markdown tables.
https://x.com/Exadra37/status/1815694986345611683 – The Mnesia database may receive native support for automated conflict resolution via CRDTs, sponsored by ErlangSolutions and developed by Vincent Lau.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHdPRyMjmW8 – Vincent Lau spoke at Code BEAM Europe 2023 about his work on adding CRDTs to Mnesia for automated conflict resolution.
https://www.erlang.org/doc/apps/mnesia/mnesia.html – Documentation on Mnesia, a distributed key-value DBMS built into Erlang.
https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1791166342034255938 – Oban Pro's launch week introduces unified migrations, worker aliases, better support for distributed databases, faster unique job checks, and the @job decorator for small jobs.
https://x.com/sorentwo/status/1807155900609904973 – Improvements in Oban Pro include better batch workflows with mermaid visualizations.
https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-1 – Article on Oban Pro's launch week, detailing new features and improvements.
https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-2 – Second day of Oban Pro's launch week article series.
https://getoban.pro/articles/pro-1-5-launch-week-day-3 – Third day of Oban Pro's launch week article series.
https://alembic.com.au/blog/igniter-rethinking-code-generation-with-project-patching – Blog post by Zach Daniel about Igniter, a tool for rethinking code generation with project patching, useful for installing libraries into existing Phoenix applications.
https://2024.elixirconf.com/ – ElixirConf 2024 Preview with details on scheduled speakers and topics.

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