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RailsConf 2016 - Rails to Phoenix by Brian Cardarella

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.

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Confreaks
Topic
rails to phoenix migration
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
4
HN mentions in dataset
7
Recommendation years in dataset
2016–2016

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • 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.

    anonyfox on Hacker News · 2016-07
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  • I can't speak about experiences with Ruby/Rails since I don't use that stack but I can give you advice about both Scala and Elixir. I used to be a Java programmer and fell in love with Scala and functional programming. Scala helped me do things …

    alexgaribay on Hacker News · 2016-05
    In Ask HN: Fed up with Ruby/Rails; what language should I learn?
  • 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]

    bcardarella on Hacker News · 2016-06
    In Elixir v1.3 released

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