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Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella (RailsConf 2016)
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RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella
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- Presented by Brian Cardarella, CEO of DockYard
- May be out of date. The tools, versions or practices it shows have likely moved on.
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
12K views10 years ago5 recommendations
Web developmentProgramming languagesElixir and ErlangRubyFull-stack frameworks
Brian Cardarella explains why and how to migrate web applications from Ruby on Rails to Elixir and Phoenix.
You may have heard about Phoenix and Elixir. It is a language and framework that give you performance without sacrificing productivity. Learn why Phoenix is a great choice for Rails developers and how you can introduce it into your organization.Why it's here
5 people recommend thisWhat people say. Recommended for developers considering Elixir and Phoenix, offering real-world performance data and migration strategies.
anonyfoxon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more”
I'd say you really should have a look into link to this video . A really great presentation, including numbers and real world backup data, plus conceptual overviews.
alexgaribayon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Ask HN: Fed up with Ruby/Rails; what language should I learn?”
…ight but can scale without any configuration. The community around Elixir is fantastic and helpful and everyone is growing together. Brian Cardarella (well known in the Elixir community) gave a conference talk at Rails Conf about switching from Rails to Phoenix (Elixir's goto for web) and that may be a good start to empower you to make a decision: link to this video . A great resource for learning Elixir if you choose that route is Programming Elixir 1.2 by Dave Thomas. It's a great book for beginners and can help with you understand Elixir semantics and functional programming.…
bcardarellaon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Elixir v1.3 released”
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: link to this video
tim333on Hacker News • Recommends
On “Elixir vs. Erlang, is Elixir safe bet for my time investment?”
I started watching RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella link to this 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
bcardarellaon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Phoenix 1.2”
I posted this in the Elixir 1.3 thread but also relevant here. If you're looking to understand why you/your company may want to consider migrating from Rails to Phoenix you can check out my RailsConf talk on the subject link to this video
bcardarellaon Hacker News • Recommends
On “Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more”
We've moved all of our backend offerings from Rails to Elixir/Phoenix. Despite some questioning the value of anything below 100ms response times there is a lot of data backing up the idea that Elixir/Phoenix can lead to a more maintainable and more economical solution. I spoke about this recently at RailsConf: link to this video Don't get me wrong, I think Rails is an amazing technology but it doesn't fit the use cases and demands our clients have today.
anonyfoxon Hacker News • Mentions
On “Rails 5.0: Action Cable, API mode, and more”
…mutable blob of binary (elixir strings) which is shared throughout the whole application can leverage hardware caching better. Jose could answer this probably better than I can do. > someone should dissect these things in a real-world-ish application to see what's actually true. Moz.com recently had fun with Elixir 1. You may also have a look at link to this video from latest RailsConf. > The claim was 'fast' though Well at least I know that BEAM processes are far lighter than eg: goroutines. Also there is a per-process GC, so no "stop the world", much smaller units for individual collects, and when a process finishes before the heap grows full, it can be discarded directly. > maintainable, which see…