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I don't check HN on the weekends. Didn't know it was frontpaged. As such, I'm gonna just assume that "interesting" was genuine and not sarcastic -- have a good day!

Ugh. Yeah, looks like someone submitted my post over the weekend. A shame, since I know lots of folks who just check HN during the week will miss out on participating.

Thanks! Yeah, those were the ony options I was aware of, but the "provided there is an available container instance to place it on" issue is a problem due to port availability, and I was looking for zero-downtime deploy options.

I'd love to hear how you're handling the ECS part of this. From the experimentation I've done, it's not just a matter of telling ECS to update the service unless you're running 2x the number of container instances you need -- it won't pull resources out from the existing service revision in order to spin up the new ones.

Certainly can be worked around, but it's a little annoying.

WOOO! Happy to hear it. :D Thanks for the response!

This may be nitpicking, but I really liked the marketing material here, aside from this phrase:

"Do you need a way to divide your resources across multiple projects[...]"

It's a pet peeve of mine that so many processes and tools use the phrase "resource" in place of person. It may not have been what was meant by "resources" here, but that's how it reads.

How about:

"Do you need a way to manage multiple projects[...]"

or...

"Do you need a way to divide your time between multiple projects[...]"

Really happy to see the 1.0 milestone reached. I've enjoyed my time with Elixir. It's really approachable, and made a lot of Erlang/OTP concepts start to click for me in ways that they just hadn't, before.

Syntactically, it's a pleasure to use as a long-time Ruby guy, which I suppose is no surprise given José's presence in the Ruby community.

However, all of this aside, what makes me the most excited about Elixir is José, himself. It's been my experience that when a language/framework has a BDFL, something of that person gets infused into its community. Anyone who's interacted with José will tell you he's an incredibly friendly, humble, and downright thankful person.

Elixir is set up for success in so many ways, but the community aspect is the one we just can't afford to ignore.

This is a promising start. I've felt for a while now that we need some strong alternatives to Rails for the folks who feel like the Rails Way and the Ruby Way don't always get along.

It still feels a bit DSL-centric from the examples I've seen thus far, and haven't dug into things to see what the generated Ruby looks like -- but if it's anything close to simple, this is something that has a chance to become an important part of the Ruby ecosystem.

If nothing else, it's great to see things like this because they provide concrete example code for discussions that (IMHO) need to happen.

Oh, nice -- until I saw your comment I wasn't aware Jerad was a Louisville local! Congrats Jerad, and congratulations to Kaggle!

Not chainably, out of the box, though you can abuse build_where to do this and join with strings easily enough.