We manufacture communications equipment, satellite and troposcatter modems. The appeal of Nerves/Elixir was the fault tolerance and small footprint (based on buildroot) compared to the Debian/Yocto type embedded Linux distros. We are not webapp people, we design hardware. The Elixir ecosystem lets us spend more time doing the signal processing and hardware dev and less time working on the various UIs (web/REST/SNMP, etc).
For a specific use case, if you ever fly on Southwest airlines, there’s a 99% chance that your in-flight connectivity is provided by a Nerves-powered modem.
