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title: "Elixir"
description: "1 posts about Elixir, summarised, each linking to the original."
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# Elixir
> 1 posts about Elixir, summarised, each linking to the original.

## Articles

### [Elixir at Ramp 🧪](https://yomu.fyi/post/elixir-at-ramp.md)
- Company: [Ramp](https://yomu.fyi/company/ramp.md)
- Author: Pablo Meier
- Published: May 24, 2021

Ramp engineer Pablo describes why Elixir suited several critical services, while arguing that technology choice is only one part of engineering success. He contrasts BEAM, Erlang’s virtual machine, and OTP’s abstractions for reliable, concurrent systems with the adoption and developer-experience advantages of Elixir, including familiar syntax, Mix, iex, hot code reloading, doctests, macros, and sigils. Immutability and aliased module calls are presented as safeguards against hidden state changes and circular-import problems in growing codebases, though the post also notes that Erlang and Elixir lag behind bolted-on type checkers. Ramp uses Elixir for its real-time Authorization engine and Risk analysis platform; the Authorization service is described as exceptionally stable and flexible for rapid feature development. The company’s largest backend remains Python, and the conclusion prioritizes sleep, trust, ownership, and psychological safety over any specific stack.