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Heuristics for Development in Erlang

• rackjack 5y ago
  Is anybody using Erlang/Elixir in production for web apps? It seems well-suited for the modern age of using microservices/etc. and scattering things across several servers.
  • weathertight 5y ago
    They're both dying tech. I personally was a huge fan or Erlang/Elixir but I couldn't take it anymore - there are no jobs and no corporate backing, it's doomed to fail. I finally gave up and moved to Go.
  • throwawayboise 5y ago
    Yes
  • dnautics 5y ago
    off the top of my head, for elixir: cars.com, divvy, pepsico ecommerce, slab, ramp, discord, bleacher report, weedmaps, $DAYJOB, etc.
    • weatherlite 5y ago
      Wow pepsico! amazing, Elixir is hot as shit
      • jjdeveloper 5y ago
        Elixir, so hot right now … https://youtu.be/FAxJECJJG6w https://youtu.be/FAxJECJJG6w
  • Zababa 5y ago
    transport.data.gouv.fr, the transport part of the french open data portal. Source code here: https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/ https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/.
  • throwaway81523 5y ago
    Yes, lots of people are, with Elixir/Phoenix being inspired by Ruby/Rails. I haven't personally done web apps that way, but used Erlang years ago for some non-web TCP servers that handled 1000s of connections without breathing hard. There were a few gotchas that had workarounds then, and that might have real fixes by now. Erlang's picture for scattering stuff across multiple servers isn't as great as it might at first sound, but it is something. I do think the BEAM's lightweight process model is how all the popular interpreted languages (Python, Ruby, JS) should work by now. Unfortunately we still end up using OS threads and/or messy async schemes instead.
  • koudelka 5y ago
    We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!
  • gregors 5y ago
    as well as - Community, BlockFi, Boulevard, Zillion insurance, Pass It Down
• tardibear 5y ago
  (2016)