Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/278

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://elixir-survey.typeform.com/2025-edition – Curiosum Elixir survey open until November 14th, 2025 (about 2 days remaining when episode releases)
• https://elixir-hub.com/surveys – Where survey results will be published after the survey closes
• https://x.com/mikehostetler/status/1985134169899360709 – Announcement tweet about ReqLLM 1.0 release
• https://agentjido.xyz/blog/announcing-req_llm-1_0 – Blog post announcing ReqLLM 1.0, a Req-based package to standardize LLM API calls and responses across providers
• https://github.com/agentjido/req_llm – ReqLLM GitHub repository - went through 8 RCs to reach 1.0, includes Google Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock support, and more
• https://x.com/DNAutics/status/1983278808271663452 – Isaac Yonemoto's tweet about using an LLM to build an MCP to analyze and service Elixir codebases
• https://github.com/E-xyza/codicil/ – Codicil - Elixir library providing AI coding assistants with deep semantic understanding of your codebase through the Model Context Protocol
• Isaac will be speaking about Codicil at ExMex conference (which will have concluded by episode release)
• https://x.com/josevalim/status/1985408862690685315 – José Valim teases upcoming Tidewave Web expansion to support multiple frameworks including Django, FastAPI, Flask, Next.js, Phoenix, Rails, and React + Vite
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright – phoenix_test_playwright library - executes PhoenixTest cases in actual browsers via Playwright
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Changelog for versions 0.9.0 and 0.9.1 with expanded click support, drag and drop, and browser pooling for reduced memory and higher speed
• https://github.com/ftes/phoenix_test_playwright/pull/86 – Pull request implementing browser pooling feature
• https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix_test – PhoenixTest documentation
• https://bsky.app/profile/peterullrich.com/post/3m4qms5kp322y – Peter Ullrich's Bluesky post about listening to database changes through Postgres WAL
• https://peterullrich.com/listen-to-database-changes-through-the-postgres-wal – In-depth blog post about using Postgres Write Ahead Log (WAL) for database change notifications at scale, avoiding pg_notify performance issues
• https://github.com/superfly/fly_rpc_elixir – fly_rpc Elixir library that uses WAL monitoring to track Postgres replication for distributed RPC calls across regions

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Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/101

Elixir Community News

• https://www.erlang.org/blog/my-otp-25-highlights/ – OTP 25 was officially released
• https://www.erlang.org/eeps/eep-0049 – EEP document discussing the “maybe” expression
• https://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/expressions.html#maybe – Official docs for “maybe” feature
• https://www.erlang.org/blog/faster-rand/ – A new fast Pseudo Random Generator
• https://jobs.ericsson.com/job/Stockholm-Open-SourceErlang-Developer-Stoc/746811902/ – Ericsson, the company behind Erlang, is hiring for an OpenSource developer to join the Erlang team.
• https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61562651 – Klarna layoffs
• https://hexdocs.pm/elixir/main/PartitionSupervisor.html – PartitionManager feature coming in Elixir v1.14 has docs online so you can learn about it early.
• https://twitter.com/DNAutics/status/1528434291872505856 – Isaac Yonemoto made the JavaScript engine in Zig accessible through Zigler and therefore Elixir
• https://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/98 – Follow-up from episode 98 with Dominic Letz about writing an Elixir application that runs on mobile devices and can be installed from the iOS AppStore.
• https://ionicframework.com/
• https://twitter.com/ElixirConf/status/1526654041626923008 – ElixirConf 2022 in Colorado - CFP is open
• https://2022.elixirconf.com/speaker-cfp – Where to submit your talk proposal
• https://www.elixirconf.eu/ – ElixirConf EU in London on June 9-10
• https://elixirconf.com/events – ElixirConf US in Colorado on August 30-Sep2

Do you have some Elixir news to share? Tell us at @ThinkingElixir or email at show@thinkingelixir.com

Discussion Resources

• https://litestream.io/
• https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/
• https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream – Project on Github
• https://sqlite.org/index.html
• https://sqlite.org/whentouse.html – SQLite guide on "when to use" it
• https://github.com/elixir-sqlite/ecto_sqlite3
• https://github.com/boltdb/bolt
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead_logging
• https://raft.github.io/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_type
• https://litestream.io/tips/ – Page covers tips
• https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/fuse.html – Understanding what a FUSE filesystem is

Guest Information

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• https://github.com/benbjohnson/ – on Github
• https://github.com/benbjohnson/litestream – Project on Github

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