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Are there any good tutorials to get started? What major sites are currently using Elixir?

innocentoldguy 6y ago
The Elixir video courses at https://pragmaticstudio.com/ https://pragmaticstudio.com/ are the best available, in my opinion. There are some free tutorials available and some other good paid courses, to be sure, but I think Mike and Nicole over at Pragmatic Studio offer the most complete and easy-to-follow courses available. The cost-to-value ratio of their courses is really good, I think. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I'm just a happy customer.
- conradfr 6y ago
  I don't know why you're downvoted, I did the Elixir course and it was useful and well done.
- barefootford 6y ago
  Haven't done their Elixir course but can vouch for their Ruby/Rails stuff. They just really value simplicity and sweat the details more than most instructors. Great stuff
- xenihn 6y ago
  Thanks for the recs. If you're willing to share what other paid courses you consider good, I'd appreciate it!
bmelton 6y ago
> any good tutorials? https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html - Start here. It starts off kind of abstract, and then works its way into the concrete (from my experience) -- but is very easy to pick up. > What major sites? Last I heard, Discord was serving ~5 million concurrent users, and that was well before compelled isolation. Bleacher Report is also using Elixir, and serving something like 100k requests per minute just to mobile clients. Bet365 handles as much as 100k monetary transactions during a big sporting event like a Champions League final.
AlchemistCamp 6y ago
Discord and Pinterest use Elixir at a massive scale. Discord in particular has been writing a great technical blog about the process. On a smaller scale Feedback Panda very successfully bootstrapped to a 55k MRR SaaS and was aquired in under 2 years: https://youtu.be/vaXp81OxxK0 https://youtu.be/vaXp81OxxK0 Edit: Not to be too self-promotional, but AFIK I've created more free Elixir-learning screencasts than anyone on YouTube. I cover a pretty broad range of topics from total beginner to some fairly niche things: https://youtu.be/z1nKbzZiRtY https://youtu.be/z1nKbzZiRtY
nickjj 6y ago
> What major sites are currently using Elixir? Besides what was listed already, if you're looking for info on people running Elixir / Phoenix in production there's this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix One guy was pumping over 7 billion log events a month through it. Another one (remote.com episode) serves 100k+ daily requests. Each podcast episode goes through how the app was built and how it's deployed at a high level, but still has enough details to apply those things back to your own projects. With that said, if anyone is running Elixir or Phoenix in production and sees this and wants to be on the show, just head over to the above link and click "become a guest" on the top right. I'd love to have you on, both big and small sites are welcome.
dnautics 6y ago
I heard Divvy, Brex, Slab, and PagerDuty use elixir, so if you're a bay area startup, there's a good chance you're already using elixir as part of your business stack.

The Elixir video courses at https://pragmaticstudio.com/ https://pragmaticstudio.com/ are the best available, in my opinion. There are some free tutorials available and some other good paid courses, to be sure, but I think Mike and Nicole over at Pragmatic Studio offer the most complete and easy-to-follow courses available. The cost-to-value ratio of their courses is really good, I think. I'm not affiliated with them in any way. I'm just a happy customer.

conradfr 6y ago
I don't know why you're downvoted, I did the Elixir course and it was useful and well done.
barefootford 6y ago
Haven't done their Elixir course but can vouch for their Ruby/Rails stuff. They just really value simplicity and sweat the details more than most instructors. Great stuff
xenihn 6y ago
Thanks for the recs. If you're willing to share what other paid courses you consider good, I'd appreciate it!

bmelton 6y ago

> any good tutorials? https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html https://elixir-lang.org/learning.html - Start here. It starts off kind of abstract, and then works its way into the concrete (from my experience) -- but is very easy to pick up. > What major sites? Last I heard, Discord was serving ~5 million concurrent users, and that was well before compelled isolation. Bleacher Report is also using Elixir, and serving something like 100k requests per minute just to mobile clients. Bet365 handles as much as 100k monetary transactions during a big sporting event like a Champions League final.

AlchemistCamp 6y ago

Discord and Pinterest use Elixir at a massive scale. Discord in particular has been writing a great technical blog about the process. On a smaller scale Feedback Panda very successfully bootstrapped to a 55k MRR SaaS and was aquired in under 2 years: https://youtu.be/vaXp81OxxK0 https://youtu.be/vaXp81OxxK0 Edit: Not to be too self-promotional, but AFIK I've created more free Elixir-learning screencasts than anyone on YouTube. I cover a pretty broad range of topics from total beginner to some fairly niche things: https://youtu.be/z1nKbzZiRtY https://youtu.be/z1nKbzZiRtY

nickjj 6y ago

> What major sites are currently using Elixir? Besides what was listed already, if you're looking for info on people running Elixir / Phoenix in production there's this podcast: https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix https://runninginproduction.com/tags/phoenix One guy was pumping over 7 billion log events a month through it. Another one (remote.com episode) serves 100k+ daily requests. Each podcast episode goes through how the app was built and how it's deployed at a high level, but still has enough details to apply those things back to your own projects. With that said, if anyone is running Elixir or Phoenix in production and sees this and wants to be on the show, just head over to the above link and click "become a guest" on the top right. I'd love to have you on, both big and small sites are welcome.

dnautics 6y ago

I heard Divvy, Brex, Slab, and PagerDuty use elixir, so if you're a bay area startup, there's a good chance you're already using elixir as part of your business stack.