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I'm struggling recently to build consensus with my team that Elixir is the right technology choice for a core element of our infrastructure. I've figured I just

I'm struggling recently to build consensus with my team that Elixir is the right technology choice for a core element of our infrastructure. I've figured I just need to do it myself to demonstrate the value and then snowball from there.

bongobingo1 3y ago
I saw a funny comment on another thread, where the PM was unsure if Elixir was good/stable/whatever enough to build the core business service on. The dev responded that 3 of their primary third party services were built on Elixir, so they're worried about using it in house they should probably drop those too. AFAIK that worked.
- rob-olmos 3y ago
  Pretty sure referring to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275
- throwawaymaths 3y ago
  It did not work :(
  - bongobingo1 3y ago
    Nuts!
dpflan 3y ago
This post on "How to sell Elixir again" [0] may have some useful ideas for convincing others. __ 0. HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914216 1. Article: https://gist.github.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba048158bcad385f https://gist.github.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba048158bcad3...
darkmarmot 3y ago
If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully! https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-used-the-beam-to-fight-covid-code-beam-v-talk-review/ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...
- voicedYoda 3y ago
  HCA created some high standard open source elixir libraries years ago. Love the work!
  - darkmarmot 3y ago
    Thank you! I worked quite a bit on the HL7 one! And I started on one for FHIR - but it's such a pain to work with I put it aside and considered releasing it as DumpsterFHIR or TrashFHIR. I don't think the company would be keen on that, though :)

bongobingo1 3y ago

I saw a funny comment on another thread, where the PM was unsure if Elixir was good/stable/whatever enough to build the core business service on. The dev responded that 3 of their primary third party services were built on Elixir, so they're worried about using it in house they should probably drop those too. AFAIK that worked.

rob-olmos 3y ago
Pretty sure referring to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275
throwawaymaths 3y ago
It did not work :(
- bongobingo1 3y ago
  Nuts!

dpflan 3y ago

This post on "How to sell Elixir again" [0] may have some useful ideas for convincing others. __ 0. HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914216 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914216 1. Article: https://gist.github.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba048158bcad385f https://gist.github.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba048158bcad3...

darkmarmot 3y ago

If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully! https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-used-the-beam-to-fight-covid-code-beam-v-talk-review/ https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...

voicedYoda 3y ago
HCA created some high standard open source elixir libraries years ago. Love the work!
- darkmarmot 3y ago
  Thank you! I worked quite a bit on the HL7 one! And I started on one for FHIR - but it's such a pain to work with I put it aside and considered releasing it as DumpsterFHIR or TrashFHIR. I don't think the company would be keen on that, though :)