159: Langchain with Elixir and Safe Ecto Migrations

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 04:15:00 -0600

Mark and David share what's caught their interests and focus. Langchain is a popular framework in JS and Python communities for building services that knit together different services enabling people to quickly build impressive demos. Mark talks about the parts of Langchain that interest him and how he's been building ways for Elixir apps to play in that space too. We also catch up with David’s job change, moving, and talk about his ideas around using Oban for managing data migrations in a new way.

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/159

Elixir Community News

https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1674817111863054337 – Elixir v1.15.2 and Erlang/OTP 26.0.2 are both out. All of the known bugs have been ironed out. This release also contains fixes needed by ElixirLS. ElixirLS release 0.15.1 leverages these.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.1
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.15.2
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1675900744954785796 – Elixir's type system has moved out of the “research” phase into the “development” phase.
https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-research-dev/
https://twitter.com/ElixirConf/status/1675995012453093376 – José will be talking more about the Elixir work around types in his ElixirConf US 2023 keynote talk.
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1674893183640125442 – José shared where he wants to turn more of his focus in Elixir 1.16. It's all around “docs”.
https://github.com/woodward/integrator – A new Nx focused Hex package by Greg Woodward called “Integrator”.
https://github.com/woodward/integrator/tree/main/guides – Includes Livebook guides with samples
https://twitter.com/whatyouhide/status/1675887336339406850 – Andrea Leopardi released v2.0.0 of Corsica, an Elixir library for handling CORS requests.
https://hex.pm/packages/corsica
https://twitter.com/voltonez/status/1676125858581422080 – Bram Verburg pointed out AWS RDS database connection failure issue after upgrading to Erlang/OTP 26 is probably due to certificate validation.
https://elixirforum.com/t/aws-rds-castore-certificate-validation-for-aws-rds-dbs/55111
https://github.com/voltone/aws_rds_castore – The Hex package aws_rds_castore to help manage AWS CA certificates
https://hex.pm/packages/image – Image 0.35.0 was released. Updates primarily focused on image contrast.
https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1676059564188286976 – ZigDocs was released
https://hexdocs.pm/zig_doc/Zig.Doc.html – Integrates Zig documentation into Elixir docs.
https://getoban.pro/releases#1.0.0 – Oban Pro v1.0 is out without any new features or bugfixes, purely a renamed engine and deprecation cleanup.

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Discussion Resources

https://blog.langchain.dev/announcing-our-10m-seed-round-led-by-benchmark/ – Langchain announced $10m seed round
https://js.langchain.com/docs/ – Langchain JS docs and introduction to the project
https://python.langchain.com/docs/get_started/introduction.html – Python version of the docs
Be agentic - allow a language model to interact with its environment
https://github.com/orthagonal/langchainex – Existing Elixir library called langchainex.
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1668726716947222528 – José talked about OpenAI's new function support
https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updates – OpenAI blog announcing official function calling support
https://dscout.com/
David is thinking about Oban and data migrations
https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/ – David wrote a guide on how to run Safe Ecto Migrations for production systems
https://github.com/fly-apps/safe-ecto-migrations – Guide to Safe Ecto Migrations on Github

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154: Serving Up AI with Sean Moriarity

ThinkingElixir.com — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 04:15:00 -0600

AI topics are all the rage right now, so we team up with Sean Moriarity to unpack what's going on and what it means for Elixir. Sean talks about Nx and his insights on the timing of Elixir's readiness for the public AI shift. He explains some of the Python frustrations that Elixir can alleviate and he shares tips on putting a PoC ML solution into a production Elixir app. Recently, Sean added LLaMa support to Bumblebee and he explains the background for the OpenSource Meta LLM people have been playing with and more! Turns out there's a lot to be excited about for AI and Elixir!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/154