On: Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)

[xtracto]

What happened with your Elixir stuff? ( https://blog.discord.com/scaling-elixir-f9b8e1e7c29b ). Is it still there or are you using something else now?

[Sikul → xtracto]

Elixir is without a doubt still one of the core languages. We try to use the right tool for the job and Elixir is the right tool for parts of our system.

We also combo Elixir NIFs and rust to speed up parts of the Elixir services https://blog.discord.com/using-rust-to-scale-elixir-for-11-m...

[xtracto → Sikul]

Interesting. We are researching Elixir for an online transaction ledger (thousands of payments per second) along with kafka. So far thats the technology that seems more suitable. That discord article was really appreciated to understand some of the intricacies of using Elixir.

[fbernier → xtracto]

I certainly know of a few Adtech companies using Erlang to handle > 1M bid requests per seconds :). OTP is pretty great for that.