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Thinking Elixir 278 - WAL-ing Through Database Changes
Episode 278 of Thinking Elixir. News includes the Curiosum Elixir survey closing soon, ReqLLM reaching 1.0 with standardized LLM API support across multiple providers, Isaac Yonemoto’s Codicil library bringing semantic code understanding to AI assistants through MCP, José Valim teasing Tidewave Web expansion to support Django, Rails, Next.js and other popular frameworks, phoenix_test_playwright adding browser pooling for improved performance, Peter Ullrich’s deep dive into using Postgres WAL for database change notifications at scale, and more!
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