Elixir for Reliable Systems

​How Elixir Is Designed for Building Reliable Systems

​While Elixir might be new to your radar, it has been battle-tested for over 14 years, quietly powering some of the world’s most resilient digital infrastructures.

​Most popular: Discord (voice, text & chat), Pinterest (process large no of events per second) & Spotify (to handle thousands of requests per second)

​Elixir is well known for its fault tolerance and concurrency but what features actually make its systems reliable?

​In this talk, the speaker will help attendees move beyond simply hearing that Elixir is fault tolerant to truly understanding how it achieves it with a focus on supervisors.

​We’ll explore the role supervisors play in building resilient systems, how they manage failures, and the gap they fill through the capabilities they provide.

​By the end, attendees will have a clearer understanding of how Elixir’s design enables the development of robust and reliable applications.

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​With over five years of deep expertise in Elixir, our speaker, Tracey Onim is a seasoned developer and a leading voice in the ecosystem.