Web app had heavily evolved from times when web app was just meant to display some data using markup languages. There was a time when every software needed to be installed in every machine that want to use the software. Improvement in server side technologies, browsers and internet speed have fueled the phenomena of SAAS (Software As A Service). The rule of building a software has changed drastically. Most of the software that are developed today is developed by considering "use from any machine at anytime philosophy". There is a boom in SAAS market. More and more SAAS

Few weeks back I was reading a blog about concurrency limitations in Ruby (which we all are aware since long) and how Elixir is evolving. Thus I was extremely curious to know this new dynamic functional programming language "Elixir", the two decades old Erlang language & Erlang Virtual Machine (VM) known for running low-latency, distributed and fault-tolerant systems. This article is a result of my curiosity about Elixir and Erlang. This article does not cover (i.e. out of scope) installation steps of Elixir & Erlang on Mac, Ubuntu or Windows machine as lot of help is already