A few months ago we had the opportunity to interview Mickaël Rémond about his experience using Elixir in production. Mickaël is the CEO of ProcessOne. ProcessOne is the company behind ejabberd, the famous XMPP server. They’re specialized in high-performance instant messaging solutions and they integrated Elixir into ejabberd to make ejabberd development available to a … »

A few months ago we had the opportunity to interview Jamie Winsor about his experience using Elixir in production. Jamie is a software engineer at Undead Labs. Undead Labs is game development studio, which was founded in 2009 by Jeff Strain, a former Blizzard employee and one of the co-founders of ArenaNet. They’re using Elixir … »

A few months ago we had the opportunity to interview Bruce Tate about his experience using Elixir in production. Bruce Tate is the CTO of icanmakeitbetter. icanmakeitbetter is a market research company. They’re using Elixir to power their chat service. Watch the video below or read the interview to get to know his experiences with … »

As a Scrum Master, Project Manager or any other project management role you can have, removing impediments is part of your daily routine. They come in many forms and sizes, ranging from organizational to human ones. But there are also technical impediments, those you annoy ask your beloved developer teammates for help if you don’t … »

Since microservices have been a common topic lately, there are a lot of questions about how Elixir fits in microservice architectures. On this post, I won’t focus on the merits of microservices, as many have already discussed that to exhaustion. In particular, Martin Fowler’s entry on the topic aligns well with my thoughts and is … »

A few months ago, I started learning Elixir by reading and doing the exercises from Dave Thomas’ book ‘Programming Elixir’. I was having a lot of fun on it, but I was missing a real project to put my hands on. At that time, José Valim was in Brazil and I had the chance of … »