I've had a great time contributing to this project, using Elixir to create a multi-tenant connection pooler. It's still under development, but we're excited to gather feedback and improve it. Elixir has been an awesome language to work with — let us know what you think!
Runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine, also known as the BEAM. Erlang was built for scalability and fault tolerance of telephone switches by Ericsson in the 80's.
Give this a watch, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir". Covers a lot of what's nice about the underlying platform.
I completely agree with chasers's points. Moreover, Elixir's excellent concurrency support and its fault-tolerant nature make it well-suited for handling a high number of connections, ensuring our connection pooler's reliability.
