Essential Mnesia Tips for Elixir Developers

The article discusses Mnesia, a real-time, distributed database integrated with the BEAM, highlighting its advantages for Elixir applications needing atomic transactions, disk persistence, and replication. Matt provides practical tips for effectively using Mnesia, such as ensuring schemas are created before starting Mnesia, changing table copy types at runtime, configuring disk locations, using static node names, and adding Mnesia to included applications without starting it automatically. He acknowledges that while Mnesia may face criticism within the Elixir community, it can still be beneficial if utilized correctly, and he plans to update the article as he learns more.