News for 2020-10-27

October 28, 2020

News from episode #19. Elixir v1.11.1 Released with fixes If you’ve already moved up to Elixir 1.11.0, make sure to get the latest bug fix updates. https://twitter.com/elixirlang/status/1317021884475711490  https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/releases/tag/v1.11.1  phoenix_live_dashboard v0.3.0 released Jose Valim shared a Twitter thread discussing the enhancements which includes screenshots to illustrate new features. Improvements include:  Adding Ecto Stats that shows relevant…

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News for 2020-10-20

October 20, 2020

News from episode #18. New Elixir case study with Discord https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communication-at-scale-with-elixir-at-discord/ They have crossed more than 12 million concurrent users across all servers, with more than 26 million WebSocket events to clients per second Discord runs a cluster with 400-500 Elixir machines maintained by 5 engineers. Discord used Rust to create a new type in…

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Elixir 1.11 and Erlang Docs

October 6, 2020

One of the nice new features in Elixir 1.11 is the ability to show the docs for Erlang functions. This helps you see things that you couldn’t see before. This is a short guide to help you get it working if you encountered any problems. There are a couple prerequisites to make this work. Must…

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