Slides for the "One project rebuilt 4 times: .NET, then Ruby, then Node ... and now Elixir" talk given on the ElixirConfEU 2015

2. But Node.js is Web Scale?

3. Elixir is Utility Scale.

6. Tech Before After
Elixir
Elixir
Elixir
Elixir
Websockets
Background Jobs
Long Requests
Crash Recovery Upstart
Pusher
Sidekiq
Node.js

7. defp get_version do
version = :os.cmd('git describe --always --tags')
|> List.to_string
|> String.strip(?n)
|> String.split("-")
case version do
[tag] -> tag
[tag, _commits_since_tag, commit] -> "#{tag}-#{commit}"
end
end

8. git checkout {current_commit_sha}
mix do deps.get, compile, release
git checkout {new_commit_sha}
mix do deps.get, compile, release

9. Good Things / Bad Things

11. github.com/evercam
github.com/markmeeus/ExEvercam