[abledon]

can people give real world business use cases for where they are using elixir? What industries are you working in? what actually gets done in the real world at the end of the day with the system you're working on? e.g. are more ads served to web users? are you monitoring methane on IOT things strapped to cows in farm fields?

[romanhn]

PagerDuty has standardized on Elixir as the backend language of choice after a couple of years of incremental adoption with new services. Developer happiness definitely helped get the word spread. https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/elixir-at-pagerduty/

[abledon]

Ok so they use Elixir there to make dashboards. cool.

[romanhn]

Highly available critical services comprising the PagerDuty infrastructure, actually. Cool dismissal though.

[abledon]

what are some concrete examples?

[rehemiau]

- chat / IMs backends

- multimedia streaming

- multiplayer game servers

Generally soft real-time systems

[abledon]

what multiplayer game servers use elixir? can you give specific examples?

[rehemiau]

These were just examples from head, where I'd see it being used, but concrete examples are here: https://elixir-companies.com/

You can browse by industry, gaming here: https://elixir-companies.com/industries/gaming

Additionally, I believe Riot Games uses Erlang for their in-game chat and maybe other services. Also DemonWare (part of Activision Blizzard) used Erlang for CoD Black Ops, presentation here: http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/395/Erlan...

Anywhere where Erlang is used, Elixir can be used too :)

[pdimitar]

I've done several scrapers on Elixir and it has been times easier and better experience than with Go, JS and Ruby.

[di4na]

www.lovethework.com run on elixir. Data transfer and transformation from an old system, web frontend (we are refactoring a lot of the current javascript stuff recently), ecommerce, the admin stuff on the back office too.

Mostly good old web stuff.