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Explore in-depth articles created in collaboration with the Elixir team plus handpicked talks and podcasts about how companies across different industries use Elixir and its ecosystem to start and expand their businesses.
Founded in 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy, Discord is a permanent, invite-only space for your communities and friends, where people can hop between voice, video, and text, depending on how they want to talk, letting them have conversations in a very natural or authentic way.
Change.org is a social change platform, with over 400 million users worldwide. Two years ago, their engineering team faced a challenge to migrate their messaging system from an external vendor to an in-house solution, to reduce costs and gain flexibility.
The answer is: by using the craft of camera shading, which involves adjusting each camera to ensure they match up in color, exposure and various other visual aspects.
Remote is the everywhere employment platform enabling companies to find, hire, manage, and pay people anywhere across the world. Founded in 2019, they reached unicorn status in just over two years and have continued their rapid growth trajectory since.
Veeps is a streaming service that offers direct access to live and on-demand events by award-winning artists at the most iconic venues. Founded in 2018, it became part of Live Nation Entertainment in 2021.
SparkMeter is a company on a mission to increase access to electricity. They offer grid-management solutions that enable utilities in emerging markets to run financially-sustainable efficient, and reliable systems.
A group of initiatives towards innovation and open data has given the opportunity for Elixir to play a central role in exploring, validating, and visualizing transportation data across all of France.
X-Plane 11 is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers and mobile devices. X-Plane is not a game but an engineering tool created by Laminar Research that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft with incredible accuracy.
PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies serving more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Today Elixir is used at varying capacities inside PepsiCo by six different teams.
Community is a platform that enables instant and direct communication with the people you want to reach, using the simplicity of text messaging. Used by names like Paul McCartney, Metallica, and Barack Obama, Community connects small businesses, stars, and high-profile individuals directly to their audiences.
V7 is a web platform to create the sense of sight. A hub for machine learning and software engineers to develop their computer vision projects with data set management, image/video labeling, and one-click model training to automate any visual task.
Duffel is building the new software backbone of the travel industry. Their first product is the Flights API, a developer-friendly platform that enables any business to instantly search flights, make bookings, reserve seats, and sell paid extras like checked bags.
Slab is a knowledge base and team wiki that democratizes knowledge. Jason Chen started Slab in August 2016, after picking Elixir and Phoenix as the best tools to build real-time collaborative applications. The company has grown to 6 engineers since then, distributed worldwide, and relied upon by more than 7000 companies.
Heroku provides services and tools to build, run, and scale web applications. They enable developers and teams to focus on the design and craft of their apps. Heroku started development back in 2007, focused on the Ruby programming language, and since then, they have expanded to support multiple runtimes.
FarmBot is an open-source precision agriculture CNC farming project that includes a robot farming machine, software, and documentation including a farming data repository. FarmBot's machines use IoT technology to make it easy for farmers to remotely manage their gardens.
ElixirConf EU 2025
Ettore Berardi traces the BBC's journey from an Elixir proof of concept to infrastructure serving almost all web and app traffic.
ElixirConf EU 2026
Jeff Weiss explores how Frame.io uses Elixir to deliver AI-powered search at scale.
Strange Loop 2021
Bryan Hunter shows how Waterpark used distributed actors, hot code loading, and Elixir to support healthcare through COVID-19.
ElixirConf EU 2026
Sofia Silva and André Albuquerque explain how 50 engineering teams contribute safely to one large Elixir monolith.
Elixir Stream Week 2024
Filipe Cabaço details the clustering, messaging, and process-registration choices behind Supabase Realtime.
Thinking Elixir
A look at how Waterpark used Elixir and the BEAM to deliver five years of continuous uptime across critical healthcare systems.
Thinking Elixir
Joel Kemp recounts introducing Elixir at Spotify to solve concurrency challenges and build support inside a large organization.
Thinking Elixir
Paul Copplestone explains how Elixir, Phoenix, and PubSub power Supabase's open-source realtime platform.
Thinking Elixir
Thanos Vassilakis explains how Elixir and LiveView power fast, live-updating financial tools at RBC Capital Markets.
Thinking Elixir
How the BBC uses Elixir to serve most of its web and mobile traffic at enormous scale.
Thinking Elixir
How Remote grew an Elixir monolith to support nearly 300 engineers while scaling the company to unicorn status.
Running in Production
Dylan Jhaveri shares how Mux uses Phoenix and Elixir to serve billions of video views with a zero-downtime API.
Thinking Elixir
Uku Taht discusses building a privacy-first, open-source analytics business in Elixir and growing it transparently.