Interesting Article on Elixir Releases

Releases are the most complete deployment option for an Elixir project.

The article: http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2019/05/updating-hex-pm-to-use-elixir-releases/?utm_campaign=blog-post-promotion&utm_medium=email&utm_source=subscribers-list

There are several ways to deploy an Elixir application:

• Source code run with elixir script.exs
• Run with mix
• Deployed using an escript
• A full release

The last of these is the most robust solution which will permit clean upgrades.

The term Application in Elixir is akin to a library in other languages.

An Elixir solution is more of a mini operating system with processes.