jesses

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   by jesses 9y ago

   Deployment is by far the biggest pain point I've seen in new Elixir developers. Developers use Mix in development, but then build releases using Distillery for production. There are a few gotchas and pitfalls that almost everyone falls
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   by jesses 9y ago

   I don't want this to feel like an ad, but https://gigalixir.com should help in this area. Its a platform-as-a-service, like Heroku, but it's designed to encourage stateful application servers by not doing daily restart
3. 33.▲
   by jesses 9y ago

   Let me know if you have any issues. You can email me directly here (base64 encoded): amVzc2VAZ2lnYWxpeGlyLmNvbQ==
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   by jesses 9y ago

   https://gigalixir.com is a platform-as-a-service designed just for Elixir. Disclaimer: I'm the founder.
5. 35.▲
   by jesses 9y ago

   Thanks for the link! There's also a feature comparison table here. http://gigalixir.readthedocs.io/en/latest/main.html#gigalixi...
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   by jesses 9y ago

   Oh sorry about that. The free tier is obviously free, but once you need to scale up, you just pay for how much memory you need whether that's 1 big instance or many small instances. This may help since it has some examples. http:&#x2F
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   by jesses 9y ago

   Totally! The building and deploying is the easy part. Then you have to worry about configuration, secrets, versions, rollbacks, migrations, TLS, logging, load balancing, database hosting, backups, billing, maintenance, reliability, security
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   by jesses 9y ago

   https://www.gigalixir.com is a platform-as-a-service for Elixir apps. It only just launched a few months ago, but so far hasn't generated a profit. I spent 6 months building it and still hope it may take off as Elixir gains
9. 39.▲
   by jesses 9y ago

   Oh my bad, I usually do that. I can't seem to edit my comment though..
10. 40.▲
    by jesses 9y ago

    Thanks for the write-up. Have you thought about using gigalixir.com instead of Heroku?
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    by jesses 9y ago

    Hey Hacker News, I've been working on this for the last 6 months or so to try and help spread Elixir. Deployment is probably the top complaint when it comes to choosing Elixir so I'm trying to make that easier. Please let me know
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    Show HN: Gigalixir: A PaaS for Elixir Apps(gigalixir.com)

    12 points by jesses 9y ago|3 comments
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    by jesses 9y ago

    It's still in beta, but https://www.gigalixir.com gives you a Heroku-like experience for stateful Elixir/Phoenix apps complete with node clustering, hot upgrades, remote observer, and high process uptime. You can use w
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    HBase vs Cassandra(blog.adku.com)

    7 points by jesses 16y ago|0 comments
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    Our rietveld experience(blog.adku.com)

    2 points by jesses 16y ago|0 comments
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    Should you do performance reviews in a small startup?(blog.adku.com)

    4 points by jesses 16y ago|1 comments
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    What the ideal founding team should look like(blog.adku.com)

    9 points by jesses 16y ago|1 comments
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    Why we started a company(blog.adku.com)

    5 points by jesses 16y ago|1 comments
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    by jesses 16y ago

    The range is actually pretty big. You'd have to send out thousands of emails which may be a task in itself to get by the spam filters.
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    What a job description should look like(adku.com)

    7 points by jesses 16y ago|3 comments
21. 51.▲
    by jesses 19y ago

    part shanghai, part silicon valley =)