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Thinking Elixir 222: OTP Update and Deprecating Unless
Episode 222 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the release of OTP 27.1 with significant improvements to the Zip module, the upcoming deprecation of the unless
keyword in Elixir 1.18, support for Data Channels in Elixir WebRTC, new test-related feature highlighted by ElixirStreams to tackle intermittent failures, a detailed blog from Discord on reducing their websocket traffic by 40%, ElixirConf Lightning talks on YouTube, and more!
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