Elixir is a very simple approach to running something in production that you know can handle the load really well. I think Go can be a little bit like that for people that run Go. And Elixir and Erlang, as you know, are not ideal for number crunching. But Python is the de facto language for machine learning and AI. It's just sort of cost prohibitive to set that up.
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Lars is big on Elixir. Think apps that scale really well, tend to be monolithic, and have one of the most mature deployment models: self-contained releases & built-in hot code reloading. In episode 7, Gerhard talked to Lars about “Why Kubernetes”. There is a follow-up YouTube stream that showed how to automate deploys for an Elixir app using K3s & ArgoCD.
More than a year later, how does Lars think about running applications in production? What does simple & straightforward mean to him? Gerhard’s favourite: what is “human scale deployments”?
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