Mark Ericksen - Elixir in Production

We talk with Mark Ericksen from Elixir Mix about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed. Mark Ericksen - Elixir Mix Find Mark elsewhere online: https://twitter.com/brainlid https://brainlid.org/ 00:32 Intro 0:58 Mark intro Developing a long time. C#, then Rails. Webforms were terrible. Rails is “Wow, this is how web development should be… I moved across the country to work with this technology” The Rails Community is strong. Dave Thomas got Mark into Elixir 2:48 What Elixir projects do you have in production? A Rails app and a number of Elixir Micro-liths 4:29 Why do you use Elixir 6:45 Trends in moving from Ruby and Rails to Elixir Ruby Syntax Pattern Matching Concurrency primitives Fault Tolerance and a functional paradigm Erlang/OTP 6:48 Comparing Elixir community to Ruby community to C# community 8:27 Any disadvantages to using Elixir? Building releases. Configuring releases. mix.release 10:13 Where are you hosting these bad boys? AWS Kubernetes in Production. So Fresh. Docker and Distillery 2.0 Releases Yaml files and Bash Scripts Makefiles 10:53 What else are you using besides docker 12:36 Helm and Ksonnet. 13:55 Deploys 14:39 Clustering 17:50 How do your Elixir apps compare to the Ruby apps? Big Elixir Apps 20:00 How Mark handles background jobs Easy to write yourself with BEAM primitives 21:27 Libraries - Quantum, Bamboo, ex_machina, prometheus_ex via Eric’s influence 23:29 Third party integrations. Major ones were easy. Banks were bad. Literally had to FTP files. Had to use java to write xml spreadsheets. The horror. 25:26 Has Elixir ever saved the day for you in Production? 29:42: Cool OTP features 30:57 Tips to developers 35:36 Where to find Mark Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.Special Guest: Mark Ericksen.