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Would be interested to hear whether they consider moving some parts to Elixir that is mentioned in the post. It would appear as a very good match for their situ

• joelbluminator 6y ago
  Highly unlikely. And as you may have read in this article, this isn't about "moving parts" but making the monolith itself more modular. The monolith is close to 3 millions lines of codes last I read, and they don't want a micro-service architecture. Also - would Elixir have really scaled 3 million lines of code that easily? Maybe Shopify would have gotten the "Umbrella app" from Elixir for free but would have had to implement a tons of other functionality themselves. I read over and over Elixir has missing libraries. If they went the rewrite in different language route I'd argue something static like Java is a much more sensible fit for this specific problem than Elixir.