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[OkayPhysicist]

Pepsi's hiring Elixir developers for their backend and logistics systems. Pretty much every company of significant scale realizes they can either save money or gain some advantage from using custom software.

[dver → OkayPhysicist]

Very much this.

What ever is being manufactured, the real product is data for process improvements, improve product quality.