marcelo
Elixir and the power of truly distributed systems
Long story short, over the past years we’ve been scaling our operation quite a lot at Unbabel. Most of our codebase is Python and some of it was giving us hell for the past 2 years so we decided to evolve parts of our architecture to Elixir and Phoenix. We’ve been writing about it and this is our latest blogpost:
Elixir and the power of truly distributed systems
Would love to get some feedback and input for our next blogpost 
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