We are using Elixir in production for a site with traffic that can spike in a short period of time.
Elixir has helped us reduce our costs by 1/3 and improve our API response times from 50ms to 5ms. (Ruby -> Elixir)
Using erlang/Elixir processes forced us to reevaluate the way we handle state and were able to find many ways to optimize.
I believe our code is now more organized, extensible and powerful. Our infrastructure is also more complicated, but much more fault tolerant as we have fallbacks for fetching data etc.
Deployment was pretty terrible but a simple scaleable solution with AWS is build with a docker container, push to ECS and launch ECS + ElasticBeanstalk and you're good to go.
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We are using Elixir in production for a site with traffic that can spike in a short period of time.
Elixir has helped us reduce our costs by 1/3 and improve our API response times from 50ms to 5ms. (Ruby -> Elixir)
Using erlang/Elixir processes forced us to reevaluate the way we handle state and were able to find many ways to optimize.
I believe our code is now more organized, extensible and powerful. Our infrastructure is also more complicated, but much more fault tolerant as we have fallbacks for fetching data etc.
Deployment was pretty terrible but a simple scaleable solution with AWS is build with a docker container, push to ECS and launch ECS + ElasticBeanstalk and you're good to go.