Elixir's Concurrency Model Is the One You Actually Want
async/await and goroutines solve scheduling. The BEAM solves failure. Why most concurrency pain is actually failure-isolation pain — and only the actor model plus supervision trees fix it.
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The Ruby to Elixir Migration That Cut Our Service Footprint From Ten to Six
We started with ten Ruby and Elixir services serving real-time messaging for 450K students across 900+ universities. Two years later we had six, fully Elixir, and on-call alerts had halved. The migration order, the patterns we leaned on, and what I'd do differently today.