[brigadier132]

I qualified it with the "really cool and interesting parts of elixir". While being a beautiful programming language I don't think anyone thinks elixir is cool because you can use it to build rest api servers :)

I'd be curious to hear more about how elixir makes running a cluster easier from a devops point of view. At the end of the day you probably still want to use something like kubernetes right?

[atonse]

I suspect getting nodes to connect across the cluster is easy in most stacks nowadays, kubernetes or not.

But the idea that you can just call Module.func(), and not care WHICH node it runs in, right out of the box, is quite nice.

I would wager though that 90% of elixir/phoenix devs just aren't doing any of that most of the time, instead just using it like a more performant Ruby on Rails, with ecto being awesome too. :)