As you may have seen in the announcement, Plataformatec is working on a new MySQL driver called MyXQL. Writing a complete driver involves quite a bit of work. To name just a few things, we need to support: all protocol messages and data types, authentication schemes, connection options (TCP/SSL/UNIX domain socket), transactions and more. Rather … »

Ecto 3.0 is just around the corner and as you may already know it reached stable API. To make sure everything works properly I thought I’ll try updating one of the first projects that ever used Ecto: Hex.pm. The whole upgrade was done in a single pull request, which we will break down below. First, … »