Thinking Elixir Podcast 262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime
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
Elixir Community News
- https://paraxial.io/ – Paraxial.io is sponsoring today's show! Sign up for a free trial of Paraxial.io today and mention Thinking Elixir when you schedule a demo for a special offer.
- 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 years
- https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1943601894141640808 – Saša Jurić shares about the Waterpark talk
- https://curiosum.com/blog/interacting-with-google-sheets-in-elixir – In-depth article about using Elixir and Phoenix to pull data from Google Spreadsheet
- https://x.com/jskalc/status/1945092835067211929 – Fun tip about Elixir compiler directive to inline functions for performance
- https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3ltjyeeamwi2s – ElixirConf US 2025 full schedule published
- https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes – ElixirConf keynotes featuring José Valim, Chris McCord, and others
- https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir – Get ElixirConf 2025 tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off
- https://codebeameurope.com – CodeBeam Europe speaker list is up for November 5-6 in Berlin and Online
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