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Re:Onboarding to Elixir by driton on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:30AM (#27592096)
That sounds very interesting and specific.

If it's not a random example and if you're at liberty to say, would you mind elaborating further how Elixir specifically excels in that particular use case, and what would an alternative approach, regardless how cumbersome, be?

Re:Onboarding to Elixir by dugmartin on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @11:28AM (#27592896)
This really isn't an elaboration on the grandparent comment but if you are interested in general in learning how Elixir excels at data pipelines I'd suggest looking at this library:

https://hexdocs.pm/broadway/Broadway.html

Re:Onboarding to Elixir by whalesalad on Tuesday June 22, 2021 @10:33AM (#27592137)
I have been meaning to write a blog post - I am going to escalate the priority on that.