We talk with developers from the team here at SmartLogic about our current practices on deploying Elixir and Phoenix in production.

Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic

Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.

00:00 - Fade In

00:30 - Introductions to Eric, Dan and SmartLogic

Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic

Eric Oestrich - Developer, Elixir Lead @ SmartLogic

Justus Eapen - Full stack developer @ SmartLogic

Introduced to Elixir by an old colleague.

1:20 - What Elixir projects do you have in production?

Several client projects in production. Several Mobile Apps with APIs powered by Phoenix and Elixir.

Baltimore Water Taxi.

A digital marketplace.

And more!

1:57 - Advantages and disadvantages to using Elixir.

We made the switch when a colleague was stoked about Functional Programming and introduced us to Elixir. We were won over by the performance and rich feature sets, OTP, etc.

2:43 - Where are we hosting our Elixir Apps?

6:20Deployment process, tools, scripting

7:18 - Zero Downtime Deployments

7:46 - What are the performance metrics like? Comparatively.

8:54 - How does Eric think about clustered applications in Elixir?

12:40 - How do we handle background tasks?

15:06 What libraries are we using in prod?

18:20- What third party integrations have we attempted

Always building our own clients.  Using HTTPoison

19:58Has Elixir ever saved the day in production?

It’s saved many days by PREVENTING ISSUES. Systems are architected for reliability and fault-tolerance.

21:48 - Where do supervision trees come from? What is OTP?

23:43- Tips for devs considering running elixir in production.

Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.

Special Guest: Dan Ivovich.

Links:

• Going Multi-Node
• PG2
• mnesia
• Swarm
• Horde
• Verk
• Bamboo
• Quantum
• Cachex