--- title: "Remote: growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir" url: https://daily.dev/posts/remote-growing-from-zero-to-unicorn-with-elixir-e9frmy4zh source_url: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2025/01/21/remote-elixir-case/ type: article source: "Planet Erlang" published: 2025-01-21T09:50:54.985Z updated: 2025-01-21T09:51:07.879Z tags: ["aws", "backend", "elixir"] reading_time: 7 upvotes: 7 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Remote: growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir **[Planet Erlang](https://daily.dev/sources/planeterlang)** · 7 min read · 7 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary 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. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#backend](https://daily.dev/tags/backend), [#elixir](https://daily.dev/tags/elixir) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/remote-growing-from-zero-to-unicorn-with-elixir-e9frmy4zh)