Adopting Elixir

Releases

A release is a self-contained deployment artifact that includes all of your dependencies, including Erlang and Elixir itself. Releases give fine-grained control over how the virtual machine is started. They also provide reliable configuration mechanisms for production systems. When you use this technique, you’ll notice several important benefits:

Code preloading

The VM has two mechanisms for loading code: interactive and embedded. By default, it runs in the interactive mode which dynamically loads modules when they are used for the first time. The first time your application calls List.first/1, the VM will find the List module and load it. There’s a downside. When you start a new server in production, it may need to load many other modules, ...