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RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella

Confreaks · 12.3K views · 2016-05-24 · 28:34

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Overview

Brian Cardarella's RailsConf 2016 talk on why and how teams can move from Rails to Elixir and Phoenix. It covers performance gains without losing productivity and how to introduce Phoenix in an organization.

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HN points Rails developers to it as a real-world case for migrating to Phoenix, backed by numbers.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2016–2016

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Python, Ruby & scripting languagesFunctional programmingWeb development
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anonyfox · 2016-07 · Strong recommendation

I'd say you really should have a look into [VIDEO] . A really great presentation, including numbers and real world backup data, plus conceptual overviews.

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bcardarella · 2016-06 · Recommendation

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: [VIDEO]

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tim333 · 2016-06 · Recommendation

I started watching RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella [VIDEO] as suggested in some comment yesterday and it has some stuff on whether learning Elixir is worth the time. Good talk in general. Edit link to comment thread: [LINK]

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