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Elixir Community News

• https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md#v1170-dev – Elixir 1.17.0-dev changelog update introducing a new Duration type and calendar-specific shifts support.
• https://hexdocs.pm/db_connection/DBConnection.Ownership.html#module-callers-lookup – ExUnit start_supervised now populates $callers, affecting libraries like Mox and Ecto.
• https://hexdocs.pm/mox/Mox.html#module-explicit-allowances – ExUnit changes with regards to $callers provide better support for global mocks like Mox.
• https://github.com/elixir-ecto/ecto_sql/pull/601 – Elixir Ecto experiment for adding support to unlogged tables that could speed up test suites.
• https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1777990973454262476 – Announcement of ExDoc v0.32 release.
• https://hexdocs.pm/ex_doc/changelog.html – Official changelogs for ExDoc v0.32 highlighting new features like OS default font for content and search bar improvements.
• https://x.com/chris_mccord/status/1776370373946175706 – Cloudflare Workers support for WebSockets and its impact on real-time web experiences.
• https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-websockets-in-workers/ – Introduction and explanation of websockets in Cloudflare Workers.
• https://www.phoenixframework.org/blog/the-road-to-2-million-websocket-connections – Chris McCord's blog post on achieving 2 million WebSocket connections.
• https://twitter.com/pragprog/status/1779253657097117890 – Announcement of a new Elixir focused book in beta from PragProg.
• https://twitter.com/sm_debenedetto/status/1779558393373409481 – Additional information about the new PragProg Elixir book.
• https://pragprog.com/titles/beamops/engineering-elixir-applications/ – Direct link to the forthcoming Elixir book on PragProg focused on DevOps for the BEAM ecosystem.
• https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/intro – Introduction to Terraform, as covered in PragProg's new Elixir book.
• https://x.com/thibaut_barrere/status/1777702586944036899 – Discussion on a constraint solver implementation in Elixir.
• https://github.com/bokner/fixpoint – Boris Okner's Fixpoint, a constraint solver library for Elixir.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-completeness – Explanation of NP Completeness related to constraint solving.
• https://twitter.com/hugobarauna/status/1779930969593512159 – Tip on building custom visualizations for Elixir data structures in Livebook using the Kino.Render protocol.

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Discussion Resources

• https://cloud.withgoogle.com/next
• https://github.com/brainlid/langchain
• https://github.com/dashbitco/mox
• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung/status/1780240662341849256 – Tyler's Tweet about Mox
• https://fly.io/phoenix-files/safe-ecto-migrations/

Guest Host Information

• Tyler Young joined as a guest host.
• https://twitter.com/TylerAYoung – on Twitter
• https://github.com/s3cur3 – on Github
• https://fosstodon.org/@tylerayoung – on Fediverse
• https://tylerayoung.com/ – Blog

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Elixir Community News

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY – Playlist of 44+ ElixirConf US talks now available on YouTube.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCnfdHtgAN4&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=39 – Owen Bickford's talk on Elixir's Secret Ingredient at ElixirConf.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtCJ56GxKf0&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=43 – Jeffery Utter's ElixirConf presentation on Scaling Teams with Kafka on the BEAM.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLO0ma-1uD4&list=PLqj39LCvnOWbHaZldxw_g02RaTQ4vQ1eY&index=44 – Andrew Bennett discusses Erlang Dist Filtering and the WhatsApp Runtime System at ElixirConf.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaZDAynM08 – Michael Lubas's insights into Elixir Security from a Business and Technical Perspective.
• https://dockyard.com/blog/2023/11/01/the-road-toward-live-view-native-v-0-2-part-2 – Update on the progress of LiveView Native, including multi-character sigils and Phoenix layouts.
• https://sessionize.com/lambda-days-2024 – Call for talks for the Lambda Days 2024 conference focused on functional programming in Kraków, Poland.
• https://twitter.com/germsvel/status/1722221427112456533 – Elixir 1.16 introduces the ability to run multiple tests with line numbers as shown by German Velasco.
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfrzGXM-Z88 – Theo's livestream with José Valim, discussing various topics for 2.5 hours.
• https://peterullrich.com/test-an-external-read-only-repository-in-phoenix – Peter Ullrich's method for testing an external, read-only repository in Phoenix.

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Discussion Resources

• 7:43 - David introduces and explains Safe Ecto migrations.
• Updates on Safe Ecto for additional safety features and latest improvements.
• Review of the performance of using text columns in databases showing that they have the same performance as VARCHAR types.
• Examples provided of non-immutable expressions within database contexts.
• Highlighting an error that can occur when backfilling data without a sort order.
• Suggestion that Common Table Expressions (CTE) offers a more reliable method for certain database operations.
• David's call for a library to assist with running database operations through a UI, indicating the desire for tooling improvements.
• Consider the use-cases in the development and implementation of safety tools for databases.
• 18:47 - Mark discusses new Fly.io GPU hardware, model improvements, and the Bumblebee tool.
• Mistral LLM and its capabilities in the AI space.
• Insights into running Bumblebee on GPUs and performance considerations.
• Importance of Mistral being self-hosted.
• Explanation of why self-hosting AI models like Mistral is significant for developers and users.
• OpenAI's outage interrupted Mark's AI-powered workout trainer.
• Outlining the Elixir LangChain goals, its roadmap, and potential impact on AI and data processing.
• Discussion on how Large Language Models (LLMs) are effectively used for data extraction tasks.
• Discussion on what an AI router is and what problem it solves.

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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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