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BBC: documented Elixir use

Elixir routing infrastructure handles BBC web and app traffic, with circuit breakers for resilience.

How BBC uses Elixir

Ettore Berardi’s ElixirConf EU talk follows the BBC’s journey from a proof of concept to infrastructure serving almost all of its web and app traffic. A small team introduced Elixir and gradually built organizational confidence in the system.

The presentation covers a route-management DSL, handling traffic spikes and circuit breakers with fallback behavior. Those examples show Elixir at the routing layer, not a claim that every BBC product uses it.

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