When you hear “Elixir” for the first time, you might wonder why a language that runs on top of Erlang is worth learning. The answer lies in the problems you’ll face when you build modern, Internet‑scale services: handling thousands of concurrent users, surviving hardware failures, and updating code without dropping connections. Erlang was created in the 1980s to solve exactly those challenges for a telecom giant, and Elixir simply makes the experience of writing Erlang‑based code a lot more pleasant.
What We’ll Cover
- The traits that make a system “highly available”
- How Erlang’s process model