Elixir in Production Recap

With this season over, we bring Dan Ivovich back to talk about what we learned. Dan Ivovich - Director of Development Operations @ SmartLogic 00:43 - Why are you using Elixir in production? 01:20 - Advantages / disadvantages of Elixir 02:38 - How do you deploy? 03:48 - Zero downtime deploys 05:40 - Clustering 06:56 - Elixir App performance 09:00 - Background task processing 10:36 - Common Libraries 14:40 - 3rd Party Services 16:16 - Do you have a story where Elixir saved the day in production? 17:56 - OTP features 18:31 - Tip to developers Learn more about how SmartLogic uses Phoenix and Elixir.Special Guest: Dan Ivovich.