Adopting Elixir at Discord and Community.com

In this episode, Matt Nowack and Jake Heinz from Discord share their experiences with adopting Elixir, reflecting on the language's features that make it suitable for building a real-time chat infrastructure. They discuss the reasons Elixir developers might avoid the database driver Mnesia, learning Elixir and OTP, and the open-source contributions from Discord to the Elixir community. They also touch on performance improvements, onboarding new developers, and using immutability for efficient calculations. In the latter part of the episode, Arthi Radhakrishnan talks about her journey with Elixir at Community.com, the company's support for new developers, and the architecture built using Elixir.