[grantjpowell]

I'll build on this.

One thing I like about phoenix/elixir is that its as easy as a rails app to get started. The really cool thing is when you need some power/polish you can reach under the hood and do very powerful things with the BEAM.

My experience running rails apps at scale has been nothing but headaches when I do something concurrent or slightly weird in ruby. I always feel like I end up rewriting parts of the BEAM with redis/postgres