262: Five Years of Perfect Uptime

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 (http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/262) Elixir Community News https://paraxial.io/ (https://paraxial.io/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_campaign=thinkingelixir-july2025) – 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://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3ltz36vf4ts2u (https://bsky.app/profile/steffend.me/post/3ltz36vf4ts2u?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – 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/ (https://tomkonidas.com/repo-transact/?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – 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 (https://github.com/serpent213/deps_changelog?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – New library called deps_changelog that finds additions to dependency CHANGELOG files upon update https://x.com/akoutmos/status/1935463503164309611 (https://x.com/akoutmos/status/1935463503164309611?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Alex Koutmos announces new Elixir process debugging library called "Hog" https://github.com/akoutmos/hog (https://github.com/akoutmos/hog?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Hog library used to pinpoint and deal with memory hungry processes, helps track down OOM issues https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3ltlmmz4hq72n (https://bsky.app/profile/fly.io/post/3ltlmmz4hq72n?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Fly.io announces managed Postgres with automatic backups, failover, and monitoring https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm4K-vvt0 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdBm4K-vvt0?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Waterpark conference talk - Transforming Healthcare with Distributed Actors achieving 100% uptime for 5 years https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1943601894141640808 (https://x.com/sasajuric/status/1943601894141640808?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Saša Jurić shares about the Waterpark talk https://curiosum.com/blog/interacting-with-google-sheets-in-elixir (https://curiosum.com/blog/interacting-with-google-sheets-in-elixir?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – In-depth article about using Elixir and Phoenix to pull data from Google Spreadsheet https://x.com/jskalc/status/1945092835067211929 (https://x.com/jskalc/status/1945092835067211929?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Fun tip about Elixir compiler directive to inline functions for performance https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3ltjyeeamwi2s (https://bsky.app/profile/elixirconf.bsky.social/post/3ltjyeeamwi2s?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf US 2025 full schedule published https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes (https://elixirconf.com/#keynotes?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – ElixirConf keynotes featuring José Valim, Chris McCord, and others https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir (https://ti.to/elixirconf/2025/discount/ThinkingElixir?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – Get ElixirConf 2025 tickets with "ThinkingElixir" discount code for 10% off https://codebeameurope.com (https://codebeameurope.com?utm_source=thinkingelixir&utm_medium=shownotes) – CodeBeam Europe speaker list is up for November 5-6 in Berlin and Online Do you have some Elixir news to share? 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