Jeffrey Matthias from Community - Elixir in Production

We talk with Jeffrey Matthias from Community about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Jeffrey Matthias - Community Find Jeffrey elsewhere online: http://github.com/idlehands https://twitter.com/idlehands 0:47 - Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production. 3:29 - Why are you using Elixir in production? 6:04 - What are some of the high level advantages / disadvantages of Elixir, from your perspective? 10:14 - What do you use to host your Elixir app? Linode, AWS, DO Heroku Enmesos mesos How do you deploy your application? Ansible Deploy scripts Distillery 14:19 - Are you able to get zero downtime deploys? If so, how? 17:06 - Do you cluster the application? If so, how? 22:53 - How does your Elixir App perform compared to others in your environment? Response time Throughput Jobs/hr 25:01 - How are you solving background task processing? 29:17 - What libraries are you using? Phoenix 33:53 - Third party apps 37:28 - Do you have a story where Elixir saved the day in production? 40:42 - If you could give one tip to developers out there who are or may soon be running Elixir in production, what would it be? Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.Special Guest: Jeffrey Matthias.