A few months ago Super Chris Nelson challenged me to use Elixir to talk to a Meteor application because “It sounds like something Elixir would be good at.” At the time a few local developers—Doug Rohrer, Chris Nelson, Paul Henrich, Jason Voegele and I—had been meeting on a regular basis to hack on Elixir. We had been working on a Kafka adapter for Elixir but, after a client project moved away from Kafka, we decided to set the project aside. So I pitched the idea of working on a DDP client for Elixir. I already had a pretty simple working example of sending a connect message to the basic leaderboard example app in Meteor and getting a response back. Around this time, humanity had managed to land a rover named Philae on a comet! So naming our little experiment Philae made sense. The leaderboard app in Meteor has served as our example app for working on Philae, so we will be connecting to it here.