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can people give real world business use cases for where they are using elixir? What industries are you working in? what actually gets done in the real world at

can people give real world business use cases for where they are using elixir? What industries are you working in? what actually gets done in the real world at the end of the day with the system you're working on? e.g. are more ads served to web users? are you monitoring methane on IOT things strapped to cows in farm fields?

romanhn 8y ago
PagerDuty has standardized on Elixir as the backend language of choice after a couple of years of incremental adoption with new services. Developer happiness definitely helped get the word spread. https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/
- abledon 8y ago
  Ok so they use Elixir there to make dashboards. cool.
  - romanhn 8y ago
    Highly available critical services comprising the PagerDuty infrastructure, actually. Cool dismissal though.
    - abledon 8y ago
      what are some concrete examples?
di4na 8y ago
www.lovethework.com run on elixir. Data transfer and transformation from an old system, web frontend (we are refactoring a lot of the current javascript stuff recently), ecommerce, the admin stuff on the back office too. Mostly good old web stuff.
rehemiau 8y ago
- chat / IMs backends - multimedia streaming - multiplayer game servers Generally soft real-time systems
- abledon 8y ago
  what multiplayer game servers use elixir? can you give specific examples?
  - rehemiau 8y ago
    These were just examples from head, where I'd see it being used, but concrete examples are here: https://elixir-companies.com/ https://elixir-companies.com/ You can browse by industry, gaming here: https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming Additionally, I believe Riot Games uses Erlang for their in-game chat and maybe other services. Also DemonWare (part of Activision Blizzard) used Erlang for CoD Black Ops, presentation here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/ErlangandFirst-PersonShooters.pdf http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan... Anywhere where Erlang is used, Elixir can be used too :)
pdimitar 8y ago
I've done several scrapers on Elixir and it has been times easier and better experience than with Go, JS and Ruby.

romanhn 8y ago

PagerDuty has standardized on Elixir as the backend language of choice after a couple of years of incremental adoption with new services. Developer happiness definitely helped get the word spread. https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/ https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/

abledon 8y ago
Ok so they use Elixir there to make dashboards. cool.
- romanhn 8y ago
  Highly available critical services comprising the PagerDuty infrastructure, actually. Cool dismissal though.
  - abledon 8y ago
    what are some concrete examples?

di4na 8y ago

www.lovethework.com run on elixir. Data transfer and transformation from an old system, web frontend (we are refactoring a lot of the current javascript stuff recently), ecommerce, the admin stuff on the back office too. Mostly good old web stuff.

rehemiau 8y ago

- chat / IMs backends - multimedia streaming - multiplayer game servers Generally soft real-time systems

abledon 8y ago
what multiplayer game servers use elixir? can you give specific examples?
- rehemiau 8y ago
  These were just examples from head, where I'd see it being used, but concrete examples are here: https://elixir-companies.com/ https://elixir-companies.com/ You can browse by industry, gaming here: https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming Additionally, I believe Riot Games uses Erlang for their in-game chat and maybe other services. Also DemonWare (part of Activision Blizzard) used Erlang for CoD Black Ops, presentation here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/ErlangandFirst-PersonShooters.pdf http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan... Anywhere where Erlang is used, Elixir can be used too :)

pdimitar 8y ago

I've done several scrapers on Elixir and it has been times easier and better experience than with Go, JS and Ruby.