Remote: growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir

Remote, an everywhere employment platform, achieved unicorn status within two years by leveraging Elixir as their primary technology. They utilized a monolithic architecture for speed and simplicity, supported by tools like Boundary and incremental builds to manage their growing codebase efficiently. Their infrastructure, mainly running on AWS with EKS and PostgreSQL, remained relatively simple yet robust. A strong focus on team organization, accountability, and comprehensive training for new engineers ensured high productivity and seamless integration, even for those without prior Elixir experience.