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The author says it's "hard to use Elixir with services like Heroku because your instances won’t find each other by default (the way they’re supposed to)".

I just wanted to mention https://gigalixir.com which is built to solve exactly this problem.

Disclaimer: I'm the founder.

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We're considering to become your customer, but currently our backend isn't only Elixir but also a nodejs app that mostly prerenders our React app. How do you suggest people combine Gigalixir with non-elastic services or, say, databases?

For databases, you can provision one through Gigalixir, or you can provision one yourself with Google Cloud SQL in the us-central1 region.

For other apps, anything running in GCP us-central1 will be in the same high latency network, but some customers interop with AWS or Heroku just fine albeit with slightly higher latencies.

It's obviously a lot more work but since AWS has the biggest market and mind share, a presence in AWS will be a huge boost for you. Also make it clear to customers that you support both GCP and AWS because low latency access to database is a huge concern for most applications.

Thanks, clear! Any chance for a EU-based region soon? Most of our customers are in the EU and some are required to have their data inside the EU at all times for legal reasons.

I actually get requests for EU-based region quite a lot. I think I'll have to start working on that soon, but I can't make any promises.

I'd consider using gigalixir in the future if I have a need to host/run a personal+stateful app. Looks neat. Will have to check it out sometime. Bookmarked.

We'll be waiting for you!

Thanks for sharing, looks very good. But please include a "confirm password" in the signup form to avoid fuckups.

So glad to see someone is doing this so I don't have to!

I'm curious, where does one login from your website?

Right now, almost everything is done from the command-line interface. We're building a web interface, but we wanted to be command-line first so it integrates with scripts and tools.

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