Elixir Is Erlang, not Ruby
The greatest achievement of Elixir is making the Erlang platform and ecosystem accessible to everyone.  And that&#x27;s because its &quot;Ruby-ness&quot;.<p>I learned Ruby with Rails, so in the same spirit you could learn Elixir with Phoenix and I really think it&#x27;s a bona-fide approach to &quot;graduate&quot; to the BEAM world.<p>But, caveat emptor, the BEAM world is like an alien wunder-weapon: everything we take for granted in the modern web development world was already invented --with flying colors too-- in Erlang&#x2F;BEAM so there is a lot of overlapping in terms of architecture solutions.  In a Kubernetes&#x2F;Istio world, would you go for a full BEAM deployment?  I don&#x27;t say it&#x27;s not an already solved problem but what&#x27;s the perfect mix-ratio?  It depends.