Re:I wrote the BEAM book (2025)
by vmg12 on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @07:39AM
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To add on to your statement that the BEAM is vastly underrated, it's the only runtime that I know of that has enabled multiple small sub 50 people teams to scale to millions of daily active users.
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I second this. We serve 500 million requests a month ourselves for one of our clients. We are a sub-20 people team. Previously we were on Ruby (which is awesome to get something out there really quickly) and we were on NodeJS / SvelteKit prior to that. I view all of these platforms as tools like hammers and chisels. You should use the right one for the right use case. We still use all 3, but 90% is now in Elixir, 8% about in SvelteKit, maybe 1% in RoR.