Web Development With Elixir

About a month ago @jamiemhodge talked me into giving a talk about web developement with Elixir for the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade.

So this post contains the recorded talk and links to the code used in the talk.

The source from the talk can be found here:

• iamkristian/web_development_with_elixir
• iamkristian/elixir_commits
• iamkristian/rack_example

Performance

Language	Options	Result
Ruby 2.1.1 MRI	none	788 req/s
Ruby 2.1.1 MRI	puma	10700 req/s
Ruby 2.1.1 MRI	puma -q -t 10 -w 4	22356 req/s
Elixir 0.13.2	Weber	23126 req/s
Elixir 0.13.2	Dynamo	31295 req/s
Go		53071 req/s

The talk produced some additional talk on twitter afterwards. @gudmundur made a hello world example in Go.

All tests were performed using

wrk -t 10 -c 400 <url>

Resources for learning more

• Elixirsips
• Learn You Some Erlang
• Programming Elixir
• Erlang & OTP in Action
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook

Thank you to the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade for being an awesome audience.