Oh wow, I never knew Klarna uses BEAM. I always thought BEAM is vastly underrated and it's even hard for me to convince clients of showing how powerful it (Elixir/BEAM) really is, especially when they're already on something like NodeJS. This will be a nice reference to use in conversations with future prospects.
jurgemaister 21 minutes ago [-]
One of the early investors worked for Ericsson on Erlang.
worthless-trash 3 hours ago [-]
I'm interested to see how this goes, I find it difficult to convince anyone to change from the herp-derp status quo.
oivaksef 3 hours ago [-]
There will be winners in this new AI age, and they will be the ones that are technically better, rather than the most popular or convenient for software engineers
thibaut_barrere 2 hours ago [-]
I use Elixir (BEAM-based), with LLMs daily, on a fast growing site (current pace is 5 billion HTTP queries per year on a single front node).
Elixir is well handled by LLMs at this point, and we keep the “easy to scale and maintain” aspect (operational characteristics of the runtime are very good).
I can safely say that total cost of ownership is excellent.
valzam 2 hours ago [-]
I think that's the first time I see someone use qpy...
thibaut_barrere 40 minutes ago [-]
Fair enough! That’s how we track growth, it’s easier to communicate to state sponsors.
Roughly 14M per day, but growing 2.5 to 3 on a YoY basis.
My point stands though: much more serenity in ops with that growth, and LLMs do work nicely, especially when most of the code is stateless by language design.
shakna 4 minutes ago [-]
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te_chris 23 minutes ago [-]
Elixir is perfect for the ai age as it allows you to move a lot of orchestration safely into the application layer.
ValtteriL 2 hours ago [-]
I love Erlang, Elixir, and BEAM by extension. Lucky to have been forced to learn it at KTH.
bradknowles 1 days ago [-]
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sharts 23 minutes ago [-]
Perhaps github should read it
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minfazhai 7 hours ago [-]
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Elixir is well handled by LLMs at this point, and we keep the “easy to scale and maintain” aspect (operational characteristics of the runtime are very good).
I can safely say that total cost of ownership is excellent.
Roughly 14M per day, but growing 2.5 to 3 on a YoY basis.
My point stands though: much more serenity in ops with that growth, and LLMs do work nicely, especially when most of the code is stateless by language design.