Phoenix is a Web Framework inspired by Ruby On Rails, the father of all modern Web Frameworks. It’s written on Elixir, which is a functional dynamic language that runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine. The ErlangVM, also known as BEAM, is an incredible piece of engineering. It has been around for about 30 years but for some reason, it didn’t get mainstream. Its reliability is contrasted: around 50% of the worlds telephone switches work on top of BEAM. Another example is WhatsApp (link, link), which is able to handle more than 900 million users thanks to the ErlangVM.  

by jmgomez | Oct. 4, 2016 Phoenix , Elixir , Web , Actor Model