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If you're looking for a reason to migrate from a stack like Ruby/Rails to Elixir/Phoenix you should check out my RailsConf talk on that exact subject: https://w

If you're looking for a reason to migrate from a stack like Ruby/Rails to Elixir/Phoenix you should check out my RailsConf talk on that exact subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhTQdcieQE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxhTQdcieQE

Dangeranger 10y ago
This is a great talk. Have you all at DockYard considered putting these concepts in writing? Sometimes I find that having a detailed blog post about the subject with supporting links and documents can be a fantastic resource for transition discussions. My team has made the decision to move toward all greenfield projects being started in Elixir/Phoenix and we couldn't be happier. We have been a Rails shop for six years prior.
- bcardarella 10y ago
  I should probably write it up. I've been pretty busy traveling for business and doing conf talks. The next few weeks slow down quite a bit so I should have some time.
dineshp2 10y ago
Great talk. Is it hard to find developers familiar with elixir/phoenix? Or is hiring RoR developers and training them to work on elixir/phoenix a better option than specifically hiring people familiar with elixir/phoenix? Just curious to learn about your experience, as there is not much data available on hiring elixir/phoenix devs.
- bcardarella 10y ago
  Most of our Elixir/Phoenix clients have retrained existing Rails devs. As I spoke about in the talk, the initial retraining period is about a week. Reading Part One of the PragProg Programming Phoenix book will introduce the dev to Elixir syntax and FP basics. Their existing knowledge of Rails can be applied to Phoenix apps where they can start making contributions. However, this does not make expert Elixir or Phoenix devs. Reading up and learning about OTP and how concurrency works in Elixir/Erlang is necessary to continue to advance.
ffn 10y ago
Thanks for all the work you and the good folks at Dockyard put into Elixir Phoenix and Ember.js, my entire stack nowadays is run with Ember in the front and Phoenix in the back, so I very much appreciate all the great addons, packages, talks, etc., you guys have given.
- bcardarella 10y ago
  We love to reinvest in the open source community. :)

Dangeranger 10y ago

This is a great talk. Have you all at DockYard considered putting these concepts in writing? Sometimes I find that having a detailed blog post about the subject with supporting links and documents can be a fantastic resource for transition discussions. My team has made the decision to move toward all greenfield projects being started in Elixir/Phoenix and we couldn't be happier. We have been a Rails shop for six years prior.

bcardarella 10y ago
I should probably write it up. I've been pretty busy traveling for business and doing conf talks. The next few weeks slow down quite a bit so I should have some time.

dineshp2 10y ago

Great talk. Is it hard to find developers familiar with elixir/phoenix? Or is hiring RoR developers and training them to work on elixir/phoenix a better option than specifically hiring people familiar with elixir/phoenix? Just curious to learn about your experience, as there is not much data available on hiring elixir/phoenix devs.

bcardarella 10y ago
Most of our Elixir/Phoenix clients have retrained existing Rails devs. As I spoke about in the talk, the initial retraining period is about a week. Reading Part One of the PragProg Programming Phoenix book will introduce the dev to Elixir syntax and FP basics. Their existing knowledge of Rails can be applied to Phoenix apps where they can start making contributions. However, this does not make expert Elixir or Phoenix devs. Reading up and learning about OTP and how concurrency works in Elixir/Erlang is necessary to continue to advance.

ffn 10y ago

Thanks for all the work you and the good folks at Dockyard put into Elixir Phoenix and Ember.js, my entire stack nowadays is run with Ember in the front and Phoenix in the back, so I very much appreciate all the great addons, packages, talks, etc., you guys have given.

bcardarella 10y ago
We love to reinvest in the open source community. :)