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by john_the_writer 1496 days ago
Yeah.. I'm seeing the same thing where I work. Moving from ruby/rails to elixir. No outages, but dev speed is at a crawl. All the legacy stuff just gets ugly patches.

There was zero need to switch because even though elixir/BEAM allows for a pile of processes, postgres does not.

If I had to guess, the switch was made because someone saw something shiny.