Notes from My ElixirConf Trip Report at Indianapolis Meetup

• Background: 10 years doing ruby / 9 years doing rails; I tired of crap performance and unreliability; mostly a consultant

• Six months of mucking with elixir so I sent myself to elixirconf to force myself to get started

• Overview: Its real

• People are actually using it

• I expected Rails 1 and got Rails 3 (level of finish)

• Deploy is still hard (expected)

• Great training class - sonny scrogson highly recommended

• Big changes coming to phoenix

• Personality - “Get Off My Beam” erlang folks versus “Beam for Millenials”

• Talented, smart, helpful, nice community

• Big emphasis on documentation – replaces the rails focus on TDD

• Hex.pm is immature
  • Use erlang libraries versus 0.1x elixir

• DRY is no longer the motto

• Surprising thing for me was boyd multerer
  • nerves - 16 K for a full fault tolerant embedded stack
  • former architect of xbox live
  • could have chosen anything he wanted