Elixir for curing product development pains?
summary
Elixir enables a prototype-to-production travel backend that handles unreliable third‑party APIs by checking about 5 airports (≈15 combined flight/train requests per search) and combining results; rapid prototyping with Phoenix plus a copy‑on‑write pattern implemented via Ecto inserts keeps state simple; OpenAPI/Swagger provides living docs and input validation; a routing change yields 10x faster searches; property tests with StreamData verify intermodal routes; Dialyzer surfaced ~138 failures so type tooling is still painful.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Start
- 6:07Product development
- 15:28Domain specific problems
- 17:45Describing the new product
- 18:23Disrupt: Scaling by technology
- 20:17Iterations on routing
- 21:32Plenty of tools to choose from
- 23:42Copy on Write with Ecto
- 26:00Learnings
- 37:02No magic
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