Adopting Elixir

Introduction

Elixir is a rapidly growing functional language and the first production applications are emerging. Still, early adopters may find some important details missing. As with any emerging language, common questions arise:

• At what point do the promising rewards of the Elixir platform outweigh the risks?

• How do you recruit and train teammates who might never have used a functional language before to build consistent code?

• How do you wrestle with the trade-offs with distributed systems?

• What tools do the pros use to test, deploy, and measure your applications?

• What critical but less popular tools are available to solve issues like integrating external code or measuring performance trade-offs in production?

We wrote Adopting Elixir to change ...