[srpablo]

Hi! Have we met?

Elixir has been great for our Authorization server. I really believe in the BEAM for high-uptime cases, and love a lot about Ecto's design as an ORM. That said, I only felt comfortable bringing Elixir to Ramp because I'd already built ~3 Pheonix projects before joining, and had a decade on other Erlang projects. I make a light reference to it in a few places in the article, but I think introducing Weird Tech is very, very easy to mess up and most people would be better off not doing it.

I lead with that in my other article that made it to HN, on strategies for learning exotic tech https://morepablo.com/2022/09/so-you-re-using-a-weird-langua...

More on BEAM at Ramp and why I like it https://engineering.ramp.com/elixir-at-ramp

Me comparing/opining Ecto and SQLAlchemy, the two ORMs at Ramp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ep9CDXUHNU

It's been running Authorizations for 4 years and had remarkable good mileage.