I’m a longtime Rails developer, and I built Speechwave.live (a SaaS for speakers) in Elixir. The post covers why Phoenix fit a many-connections, spiky-traffic app, how it runs on one 512 MB Fly machine, and where I’d still pick Rails. My first hosting bill, after months of paying nothing, is $5.49.
Blog post: https://www.tracyatteberry.com/posts/why-elixir/