July 22, 2025

262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

27 minutes

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

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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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