# Episode 166 - Elixir at Boulevard w/ Sean StavropoulosWe're back after a hiatus on our irregularly posted podcast! Chris and Desmond are back in the hot seat, this time joined by CTO and co-founder at Boulevard, Sean Stavropoulos where we hear all about the founding of Boulevard and their early adoption of Elixir and GraphQL.In this show, we touch on:* The adoption of Elixir early in 2017* The adoption of GraphQL early* GraphQL vs REST, especially for third party APIs* Hiring Elixir engineers* How they deploy and run Elixir* How they do observability and monitoring* How stateful are their services* The future vision for Elixir at Boulevard## Links- Boulevard: https://joinblvd.com- Sean on Twitter: https://twitter.com/seanstavro- Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: https://www.amazon.com/Seven-Languages-Weeks-Programming-Programmers/dp/193435659X- Absinthe GQL: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/absinthe- Absinthe Dataloader: https://github.com/absinthe-graphql/dataloader- Apollo GraphQL: https://www.apollographql.com/- Honeycomb: https://honeycomb.io- AWS Fargate: https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/- Postgres tuning and performance at Pleroma: https://blog.soykaf.com/post/postgresql-elixir-troubles/- Spandex: https://github.com/spandex-project/spandex- OpenCensus Elixir: https://github.com/opencensus-beam/opencensus_elixir- Absinthe Subscriptions: https://hexdocs.pm/absinthe/subscriptions.html