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Thinking Elixir 258 - CVEs, MCPs, and Petabyte Dreams
Episode 258 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the first CVE released under EEF’s new CNA program for an Erlang zip traversal vulnerability, Phoenix MacroComponents being delayed for greater potential, Supabase announcing Multigres - a Vitess-like proxy for scaling Postgres to petabyte scale, a surge of new MCP server implementations for Phoenix and Plug including Phantom, HermesMCP, ExMCP, Vancouver, and Excom, a fun blog post revealing that Erlang was the only language that didn’t crash under extreme load testing against 6 other languages, LiveDebugger v0.3.0 being teased with Firefox extension support and enhanced debugging capabilities, and more!
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