they do detect and show that its cowboy web framework and erlang programming language. At least for me I have seen that in an app I built plus other popular sites like unsplash
Muhammad-Mullah
LostKobrakai
Cowboy is reported as the server for the files served by fastly. So it’s the question is unsplash is actually using cowboy or if it’s just fastly doing so.
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henry-hz
why not ? I don’t understand the question… even if it were with ruby, you have ton of possible answers:
- they contracted a ruby guy cheaper than the elixir
- elixir is not against ruby, only an evolution, so you can use old fashioned tools if you like
- ruby is great
- they bought a template in template monster in ruby, porting to elixir would cost money
- why not? someone that works in Google can’t have an iPhone ? maybe someone in the team loves ruby
- it’s only static files… (but that was the boring real answer…)
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Muhammad-Mullah
maz
You could write a static site in Cowboy Plug but you would have to recompile and redeploy the entire elixir app every time you changed the site file structure because you might be changing the routes. At least with nginx you just need to change a conf file and reboot; not even that if you have a simple site.
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michalmuskala
I guess this is partially compensated by the fact that Wappalyzer reports Erlang/Cowboy for ruby-lang.org 
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