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Jeffrey Matthias from Community - Elixir in Production
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Length:
44 minutes
Released:
Apr 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
We talk with Jeffrey Matthias from Community about their current and past Elixir projects and how they are deployed.
Jeffrey Matthias - Community (https://www.community.com/)
Find Jeffrey elsewhere online:
http://github.com/idlehands
https://twitter.com/idlehands
0:47 - Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production.
3:29 - Why are you using Elixir in production?
6:04 - What are some of the high level advantages / disadvantages of Elixir, from your perspective?
10:14 - What do you use to host your Elixir app?
Linode, AWS, DO
Heroku
Enmesos
mesos
How do you deploy your application?
Ansible
Deploy scripts
Distillery
14:19 - Are you able to get zero downtime deploys?
If so, how?
17:06 - Do you cluster the application?
If so, how?
22:53 - How does your Elixir App perform compared to others in your environment?
Response time
Throughput
Jobs/hr
25:01 - How are you solving background task processing?
29:17 - What libraries are you using?
Phoenix
33:53 - Third party apps
37:28 - Do you have a story where Elixir saved the day in production?
40:42 - If you could give one tip to developers out there who are or may soon be running Elixir in production, what would it be?
Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smr.tl/2Hyslu8) Special Guest: Jeffrey Matthias.
Jeffrey Matthias - Community (https://www.community.com/)
Find Jeffrey elsewhere online:
http://github.com/idlehands
https://twitter.com/idlehands
0:47 - Give us a quick overview of the Elixir projects you have in production.
3:29 - Why are you using Elixir in production?
6:04 - What are some of the high level advantages / disadvantages of Elixir, from your perspective?
10:14 - What do you use to host your Elixir app?
Linode, AWS, DO
Heroku
Enmesos
mesos
How do you deploy your application?
Ansible
Deploy scripts
Distillery
14:19 - Are you able to get zero downtime deploys?
If so, how?
17:06 - Do you cluster the application?
If so, how?
22:53 - How does your Elixir App perform compared to others in your environment?
Response time
Throughput
Jobs/hr
25:01 - How are you solving background task processing?
29:17 - What libraries are you using?
Phoenix
33:53 - Third party apps
37:28 - Do you have a story where Elixir saved the day in production?
40:42 - If you could give one tip to developers out there who are or may soon be running Elixir in production, what would it be?
Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir. (https://smr.tl/2Hyslu8) Special Guest: Jeffrey Matthias.
Released:
Apr 11, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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