Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by elbrujohalcon » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 7:48 AM UTC

Heuristics for Development in Erlang
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Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by rackjack » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

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.

Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by throwawayboise » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 9:53 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

Yes

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Post by dnautics » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 10:11 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

off the top of my head, for elixir:

cars.com, divvy, pepsico ecommerce, slab, ramp, discord, bleacher report, weedmaps, $DAYJOB, etc.

Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by tardibear » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 10:53 PM UTC

(2016)

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Post by Zababa » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 11:43 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

transport.data.gouv.fr, the transport part of the french open data portal. Source code here: https://github.com/etalab/transport-site/.

Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by throwaway81523 » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 11:52 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

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.

Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by koudelka » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 12:05 AM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

We (Frame.io/Adobe) are all-in on Elixir, and we're hiring!

Re: Heuristics for Development in Erlang

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Post by gregors » Wed, Jan 05, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

as well as - Community, BlockFi, Boulevard, Zillion insurance, Pass It Down

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Post by weathertight » Sat, Jan 08, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

rackjack wrote: post #2

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.

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.