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Case studies

Explore in-depth articles created in collaboration with the Elixir team plus handpicked talks and podcasts about how companies across different industries use Elixir and its ecosystem to start and expand their businesses.

  • Discord logo
    • Real-Time
    • Genstage
    • OTP

    Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord

    Founded in 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy, Discord is a permanent, invite-only space for your communities and friends, where people can hop between voice, video, and text, depending on how they want to talk, letting them have conversations in a very natural or authentic way.

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  • Change.org logo
    • Social
    • Broadway

    Delivering social change with Elixir at Change.org

    Change.org is a social change platform, with over 400 million users worldwide. Two years ago, their engineering team faced a challenge to migrate their messaging system from an external vendor to an in-house solution, to reduce costs and gain flexibility.

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  • Cyanview logo
    • Superbowl
    • MQTT

    Coordinating Super Bowl's visual fidelity with Elixir

    The answer is: by using the craft of camera shading, which involves adjusting each camera to ensure they match up in color, exposure and various other visual aspects.

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  • Remote logo
    • Growth
    • Team
    • Web

    Growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir

    Remote is the everywhere employment platform enabling companies to find, hire, manage, and pay people anywhere across the world. Founded in 2019, they reached unicorn status in just over two years and have continued their rapid growth trajectory since.

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  • Veeps logo
    • Streaming
    • Scaling
    • Web

    Scaling a streaming service to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers

    Veeps is a streaming service that offers direct access to live and on-demand events by award-winning artists at the most iconic venues. Founded in 2018, it became part of Live Nation Entertainment in 2021.

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  • SparkMeter logo
    • Energy
    • IOT
    • Nerves

    Embedded and cloud Elixir for grid-management

    SparkMeter is a company on a mission to increase access to electricity. They offer grid-management solutions that enable utilities in emerging markets to run financially-sustainable efficient, and reliable systems.

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  • Ministry of Ecological Transition logo
    • Open-Data
    • Gov
    • Phoenix

    Embracing open data with Elixir at the Ministry of Ecological Transition

    A group of initiatives towards innovation and open data has given the opportunity for Elixir to play a central role in exploring, validating, and visualizing transportation data across all of France.

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  • X-Plane logo
    • Multiplayer
    • UDP
    • OTP

    Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir at X-Plane

    X-Plane 11 is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers and mobile devices. X-Plane is not a game but an engineering tool created by Laminar Research that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft with incredible accuracy.

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  • PepsiCo logo
    • Biz-Intelligence
    • Phoenix

    Marketing and sales intelligence with Elixir at PepsiCo

    PepsiCo is one of the world's leading food and beverage companies serving more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Today Elixir is used at varying capacities inside PepsiCo by six different teams.

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  • Community logo
    • Messaging
    • Broadway

    Social messaging with Elixir at Community

    Community is a platform that enables instant and direct communication with the people you want to reach, using the simplicity of text messaging. Used by names like Paul McCartney, Metallica, and Barack Obama, Community connects small businesses, stars, and high-profile individuals directly to their audiences.

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  • V7 logo
    • Computer-Vision
    • Phoenix

    Orchestrating computer vision with Elixir at V7

    V7 is a web platform to create the sense of sight. A hub for machine learning and software engineers to develop their computer vision projects with data set management, image/video labeling, and one-click model training to automate any visual task.

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  • Duffel logo
    • API
    • Integration
    • XML

    Integrating travel with Elixir at Duffel

    Duffel is building the new software backbone of the travel industry. Their first product is the Flights API, a developer-friendly platform that enables any business to instantly search flights, make bookings, reserve seats, and sell paid extras like checked bags.

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  • Slab logo
    • Collab
    • Phoenix
    • OTP

    Real-time collaboration with Elixir at Slab

    Slab is a knowledge base and team wiki that democratizes knowledge. Jason Chen started Slab in August 2016, after picking Elixir and Phoenix as the best tools to build real-time collaborative applications. The company has grown to 6 engineers since then, distributed worldwide, and relied upon by more than 7000 companies.

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  • Heroku logo
    • PaaS
    • Phoenix

    PaaS with Elixir at Heroku

    Heroku provides services and tools to build, run, and scale web applications. They enable developers and teams to focus on the design and craft of their apps. Heroku started development back in 2007, focused on the Ruby programming language, and since then, they have expanded to support multiple runtimes.

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  • Farmbot logo
    • Embedded
    • Nerves

    Embedded Elixir at Farmbot

    FarmBot is an open-source precision agriculture CNC farming project that includes a robot farming machine, software, and documentation including a farming data repository. FarmBot's machines use IoT technology to make it easy for farmers to remotely manage their gardens.

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  • BBC logo

    ElixirConf EU 2025

    How Elixir Powers the BBC: From PoC to Production at Scale

    Ettore Berardi traces the BBC's journey from an Elixir proof of concept to infrastructure serving almost all web and app traffic.

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  • Frame.io / Adobe logo

    ElixirConf EU 2026

    AI-Powered Search at Scale

    Jeff Weiss explores how Frame.io uses Elixir to deliver AI-powered search at scale.

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  • PagerDuty logo

    ElixirConf 2019

    Elixir + CQRS: Architecting for Availability, Operability, and Maintainability at PagerDuty

    Jon Grieman explains how PagerDuty combines Elixir, OTP, and CQRS to build an always-available incident timeline service that can evolve safely.

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  • HCA Healthcare / Waterpark logo

    Strange Loop 2021

    Waterpark: Distributed Actors vs. the Pandemic

    Bryan Hunter shows how Waterpark used distributed actors, hot code loading, and Elixir to support healthcare through COVID-19.

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  • Remote logo

    ElixirConf EU 2026

    One Monolith, Many Teams: Growing an Org with Elixir

    Sofia Silva and André Albuquerque explain how 50 engineering teams contribute safely to one large Elixir monolith.

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  • Supabase Realtime logo

    Elixir Stream Week 2024

    Real-time System Using Elixir — Supabase Stories

    Filipe Cabaço details the clustering, messaging, and process-registration choices behind Supabase Realtime.

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  • HCA Healthcare / Waterpark logo

    Thinking Elixir

    Five Years of Perfect Uptime

    A look at how Waterpark used Elixir and the BEAM to deliver five years of continuous uptime across critical healthcare systems.

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  • Spotify logo

    Thinking Elixir

    How Elixir Came to Spotify with Joel Kemp

    Joel Kemp recounts introducing Elixir at Spotify to solve concurrency challenges and build support inside a large organization.

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  • Supabase Realtime logo

    Thinking Elixir

    Elixir at Supabase with Paul Copplestone

    Paul Copplestone explains how Elixir, Phoenix, and PubSub power Supabase's open-source realtime platform.

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  • RBC Capital Markets logo

    Thinking Elixir

    Elixir at the Royal Bank of Canada

    Thanos Vassilakis explains how Elixir and LiveView power fast, live-updating financial tools at RBC Capital Markets.

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  • BBC logo

    Thinking Elixir

    BEAM Scales from Nano to BBC Big

    How the BBC uses Elixir to serve most of its web and mobile traffic at enormous scale.

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  • Remote logo

    Thinking Elixir

    Scaling to Unicorn Status

    How Remote grew an Elixir monolith to support nearly 300 engineers while scaling the company to unicorn status.

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  • Mux logo

    Running in Production

    Mux Is an API Based Platform That Lets You Process and Stream Videos

    Dylan Jhaveri shares how Mux uses Phoenix and Elixir to serve billions of video views with a zero-downtime API.

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  • Plausible Analytics logo

    Thinking Elixir

    Plausible Analytics, Elixir, and Privacy with Uku Taht

    Uku Taht discusses building a privacy-first, open-source analytics business in Elixir and growing it transparently.

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