Elixir 1.12 • Hacker News Board

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by mrkurt » Wed, May 19, 2021, 11:49 AM UTC

yannoninator wrote: post #7

Looking into Elixir, but from what i've heard, Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers. Is that still the case? Also where does one host Elixir apps these days? Heroku, Vercel or Bare metal?

This runs on 256mb VMs and works well even when it gets busy: https://liveview-counter.fly.dev

And I'm biased, but we are a pretty good place to run an Elixir app: https://fly.io/docs/getting-started/elixir/

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by mrjoelkemp » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:00 PM UTC

yannoninator wrote: post #7

Looking into Elixir, but from what i've heard, Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers. Is that still the case? Also where does one host Elixir apps these days? Heroku, Vercel or Bare metal?

I have https://elixirdaily.link (an elixir/beam news aggregator running) on the smallest, free Gigalixir VM just fine. Does a ton of memory intensive work and doesn't go OOM (had to be careful with # outbound http connections).

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by sbarre » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:02 PM UTC

mrjoelkemp wrote: post #12

yannoninator wrote: post #7

Looking into Elixir, but from what i've heard, Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers. Is that still the case? Also where does one host Elixir apps these days? Heroku, Vercel or Bare metal?

I have https://elixirdaily.link (an elixir/beam news aggregator running) on the smallest, free Gigalixir VM just fine. Does a ton of memory intensive work and doesn't go OOM (had to be careful with # outbound http connections).

Oops I think we broke your app.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by thejosh » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:07 PM UTC

losvedir wrote: post #8

Several versions ago Jose talked about how Elixir is basically "done", which is so refreshing these days! But since then, the developer experience has improved by leaps and bounds through all these improvements other than the core language. As a professional Elixir developer for the last 4 years, I'm loving it. A few improvements in the last few versions off the top of my head that have been really nice: * Robust, ti…

Yep, when you consider a language "done", you can focus on bringing up the DX. I have been loving Elixir since 2016 and haven't looked back since, using it as my primary language for what it's good for, which is web based/distributed workloads.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by thejosh » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:10 PM UTC

yannoninator wrote: post #7

Looking into Elixir, but from what i've heard, Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers. Is that still the case? Also where does one host Elixir apps these days? Heroku, Vercel or Bare metal?

Huh? Elixir isn't memory effecient, compared to what exactly :)?

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by dovrce » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:22 PM UTC

If you are working through a programming textbook and doing the exercises in elixir, LiveBook is great https://github.com/elixir-nx/livebook (vs one big mix project)

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by AlchemistCamp » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:33 PM UTC

It's such a tiny thing, but being able to paste code with pipelines into iex is a great quality of life improvement.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by linkdd » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:35 PM UTC

yannoninator wrote: post #7

Looking into Elixir, but from what i've heard, Elixir isn't very memory efficient when it comes to web servers. Is that still the case? Also where does one host Elixir apps these days? Heroku, Vercel or Bare metal?

For me, it's: libcluster (automatic clustering with Kubernetes Service) + horde (distribute workload across cluster) + Kubernetes Deployment

Whenever I need to upgrade, I perform a rollout, new OTP application instances perform a takeover, once it's done previous pods are taken down.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by conradfr » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:51 PM UTC

Great news. I'll wait for the official docker image to be updated (I deploy on my own server with CapRover).

Seems a bit weird though that they do not generate images for the same elixir version with different OTP versions.

Currently the latest is elixir v1.12.0-rc.1 and erlang 23.

Re: Elixir 1.12

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Post by nwsm » Wed, May 19, 2021, 12:52 PM UTC

sbarre wrote: post #13

mrjoelkemp wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have https://elixirdaily.link (an elixir/beam news aggregator running) on the smallest, free Gigalixir VM just fine. Does a ton of memory intensive work and doesn't go OOM (had to be careful with # outbound http connections).

Oops I think we broke your app.

Something something demo gods