Elixir, created by José Valim, runs on the Erlang VM (also known as BEAM). Erlang, developed at Ericsson more than 30 years ago, was created to improve the reliability and scalability of the company's telecom systems. Nowadays, it is used in a number of different settings, from database systems to chat applications. Erlang has fault-tolerance and distribution baked into its design, and is famous for running systems with nine nines of reliability.
Erlang's runtime is natively distributed, given that it was designed to be deployed on multiple telecom switches simultaneously. Programs running on the Erlang VM can take advantage of this by easily distributing an application across multiple nodes, but also across multiple CPUs ...
