8 Companies That Use Elixir for Software Development

Elixir is a functional programming language built on top of Erlang, a technology developed by Ericsson for telecom.

This language is already a developer favorite, but as it turns out, it is also cherished by companies with products that need to scale. While its underlying machinery is excellent for building messaging tools such as Discord and WeChat, there are multiple other use cases.

To showcase them, we have featured eight projects that successfully make use of Elixir in production.

8 Elixir success stories

Discord

Discord is a VoIP application (primarily for gamers) that features voice, text, and video messaging. It serves 56 million users monthly, with a reported peak of 10,6 million users at the same time.

BEAM (Erlang’s VM) is perfect when you need to create scalable and concurrent web services that can efficiently serve a mass of users. With the help of Elixir, Discord has scaled to an enormous amount of users, and they don’t seem to be stopping.