Episode 258
CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams
June 24th, 2025
31 mins 48 secs
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About this Episode
News includes the first CVE released under EEF's new CNA program for an Erlang zip traversal vulnerability, Phoenix MacroComponents being delayed for greater potential, Supabase announcing Multigres - a Vitess-like proxy for scaling Postgres to petabyte scale, a surge of new MCP server implementations for Phoenix and Plug including Phantom, HermesMCP, ExMCP, Vancouver, and Excom, a fun blog post revealing that Erlang was the only language that didn't crash under extreme load testing against 6 other languages, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 being teased with Firefox extension support and enhanced debugging capabilities, and more!
Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/258
Elixir Community News
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- https://cna.erlef.org/cves/cve-2025-4748.html – New CVE for Erlang regarding zip traversal - 4.8 severity (medium) with workaround available or update to latest patched OTP versions
- First CVE released under the EEF's new CNA (CVE Numbering Authority) program - a successful process milestone
- https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3lrlhd5etkc2p – Phoenix MacroComponents is being delayed in search of greater potential
- https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view/pull/3846 – Draft PR for Phoenix MacroComponents development
- https://x.com/supabase/status/1933627932972376097 – Supabase announcement of Multigres project
- https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres – Multigres - Vitess for Postgres, announcement of a new proxy for scaling Postgres databases to petabyte scale
- https://github.com/multigres/multigres – Multigres GitHub repository
- Sugu, co-creator of Vitess, has joined Supabase to build Multigres
- https://hex.pm/packages/phantom_mcp – Phantom MCP server - comprehensive implementation supporting Streamable HTTP with Phoenix/Plug integration
- https://hex.pm/packages/hermes_mcp – HermesMCP - comprehensive MCP server with client, stdio and Plug adapters
- https://hex.pm/packages/ex_mcp – ExMCP - comprehensive MCP implementation with client, server, stdio and Plug adapters, uses Horde for distribution
- https://hex.pm/packages/vancouver – Vancouver MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools
- https://hex.pm/packages/excom – Excom MCP server - simple implementation supporting only tools
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dzZ44-xVds – AshAI video demo showing incredible introspection capabilities for MCP frameworks
- https://freedium.cfd/https:/medium.com/@codeperfect/we-tested-7-languages-under-extreme-load-and-only-one-didnt-crash-it-wasn-t-what-we-expected-67f84c79dc34 – Blog post comparing 7 languages under extreme load - Erlang was the only one that didn't crash
- https://github.com/software-mansion/live-debugger – LiveDebugger v0.3.0 release being teased with new features
- https://bsky.app/profile/membrane-swmansion.bsky.social/post/3lrb4kpmmw227 – Software Mansion preview of LiveDebugger v0.3.0 features including Firefox extension and enhanced debugging capabilities
- https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s14-e03-langchain-llm-integration-elixir/ – Elixir Wizards podcast episode featuring discussion with Mark Ericksen on the Elixir LangChain project for LLM integration
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