Purple Carpet
summary
Roundtable-style interviews explain why teams pick Elixir and what they actually built: mobile payment gateways that handle massive concurrent SMS and API spikes, a payments team that grew a bank from 5 to 200 people in two years, and a startup that delivered an end‑to‑end IoT MVP in 11 months. A Kenyan emergency/medical service prototype cuts third‑party costs. Tools and practices named: Erlang/OTP, Elixir, LiveView in production, tracing with redbug/recon (OTP23 fixes), RealCore/Antidote (RealCore‑light ~13K LOC), and pragmatic use of Ecto and property‑based testing.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome to the purple carpet
- 1:39Growth and virtual events
- 5:03Enterprise adoption of Elixir
- 8:33Life-changing Elixir applications
- 14:33Startup success with Elixir
- 22:02Drinks and community banter
- 25:08Technology and philosophy
- 35:07Organizing remote conferences
- 40:00Large file processing in Elixir
- 46:19Testing strategies and training
- 54:42The power of tracing
- 1:01:26Distributed systems with Riak
- 1:08:02Community impact and live view
- 1:17:46Emergency systems in Kenya
- 1:32:33Wrapping up the conference
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