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		quaunaut on July 11, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users If I remember right, they were using Erlang at the beginning, and moved slowly to Elixir as they got more comfortable, and the ecosystem built up around them.

Vishnevskiy on July 12, 2017 [–]

We started with Elixir, some of our engineers have used Erlang prior though.

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