Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights

Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by whalesalad on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @11:58AM (#35963657)

I'm struggling recently to build consensus with my team that Elixir is the right technology choice for a core element of our infrastructure. I've figured I just need to do it myself to demonstrate the value and then snowball from there.

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by bongobingo1 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:48PM (#35964454)

I saw a funny comment on another thread, where the PM was unsure if Elixir was good/stable/whatever enough to build the core business service on.

The dev responded that 3 of their primary third party services were built on Elixir, so they're worried about using it in house they should probably drop those too.

AFAIK that worked.

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by rob-olmos on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:17PM (#35964880)

Pretty sure referring to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929275

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by throwawaymaths on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:32PM (#35965084)

It did not work :(

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by bongobingo1 on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @01:56PM (#35965390)

Nuts!

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by dpflan on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @12:48PM (#35964463)

This post on "How to sell Elixir again" [0] may have some useful ideas for convincing others.

0. HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35914216

1. Article: https://gist.github.com/evadne/c9aeca424d30f024ba048158bcad3...

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by darkmarmot on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @02:59PM (#35966127)

If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully!

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by voicedYoda on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:11PM (#35969008)

HCA created some high standard open source elixir libraries years ago. Love the work!

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Re:Erlang/OTP 26 Highlights by darkmarmot on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @09:23PM (#35970171)

Thank you! I worked quite a bit on the HL7 one! And I started on one for FHIR - but it's such a pain to work with I put it aside and considered releasing it as DumpsterFHIR or TrashFHIR. I don't think the company would be keen on that, though :)

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