I'm not the person you asked this, but the BEAM (and phoenix by extension) excels in highly parallel contexts.
basically if you got an application which wants to connect everyone to each other in real time, thats a perfect usecase for the BEAM. so chat rooms, live-feeds, comments, video/audio conferencing, etc.
and thats also exactly where phoenix excels in my opinion as a occasional user. (never professionally though)
quick and seamless communication between silly amounts of people with almost negligible amount of resources while being error tolerant to an extreme (functional, so almost no state)
just try it out on a weekend. its definitely worth it just to see how web-development couldve been. you'll probably go back to the old way, because thats just how you earn your money and where you already have your expertise... but its definitely amazing to see how easy it can be
basically if you got an application which wants to connect everyone to each other in real time, thats a perfect usecase for the BEAM. so chat rooms, live-feeds, comments, video/audio conferencing, etc.
and thats also exactly where phoenix excels in my opinion as a occasional user. (never professionally though) quick and seamless communication between silly amounts of people with almost negligible amount of resources while being error tolerant to an extreme (functional, so almost no state)
just try it out on a weekend. its definitely worth it just to see how web-development couldve been. you'll probably go back to the old way, because thats just how you earn your money and where you already have your expertise... but its definitely amazing to see how easy it can be