Hey everyone, Apologies in advance for this novel. Looking for some deep nugget of insight I just haven’t found after being conflicted on this for too long, really hoping someone can help! I’ve been scouring the internet in a situation I’m hoping someone else has been in. I’m a new dev ~2/3 years …

Phoenix over them all. As soon you learn it , you won’t look back. I regret to some extent the time I spent learning some CMS. Phoenix and Elixir are great. I see no limitations as to usability and features. Performance is great and writing code is way less verbose than Java or PHP.

Thanks @acrolink I started an elixir tutorial and like the synax. But doesn’t the lack of stackoverflow qa’s affect you? As I’m still heavily learning that’s one of the most effective ways I’ve found to pick things up = start coding and read qa’s when I get stuck. Since I’m not a senior dev it mean…

There is not so much qa on SO because of this forum :slight_smile:

I also had about 2/3 years of experience when I switched from Rails. It did take me a little while to become productive with elixir and phoenix. But now, I think I’m way more productive in elixir than I ever was in ruby. For new projects I always prefer to use elixir when possible. I’m more producti…

Hey Praveen, thanks for the lengthy and thoughtful response. I’m actually in Toronto myself, would be great to chat!

hey! how do you deploy Phoenix apps in production?

I’m using Docker and Kubernetes (and Rancher )

There’s nothing more “cloud-native” than Elixir/Phoenix (except Erlang, of course). With the help of the awesome libraries like libcluster and swarm , you can make your applications scale like no other! Currently my team is trying to migrate my Phoenix application to a Java stack (for some bureaucra…

I’m using Docker Swarm + GlusterFS on premises servers. I wonder how to persuade our clients to move to public clouds :expressionless:

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There is not so much qa on SO because of this forum