tony612
Any suggestion to promote Elixir in a company?
Background: I’m a backend engineer in a company in China and we use Ruby mostly for our API services. We have about 7 Ruby engineers and several backend engineers who are familiar with Go, Java, Python.
I love Elixir and want to promote it here. But the biggest problem is that it’s really hard to hire Elixir engineers later on(especially in China), which is bad for a company. And it’s hard to change the situation by myself. What I can do now may be teaching others Elixir(?). I prefer giving a series of talks about Elixir instead of just pasting some links. I don’t think anyone will care if I tell them to learn Elixir instead of teaching them by myself.
Any idea for the content of the talks? Any suggestion to promote Elixir in my(or other) company?
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rvirding
2 things:
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As other have already pointed out you should pick a first example use case for which elixir/phoenix is a much better solution AND which is relevant and interesting for the company.
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While it might take a relatively short time to teach a ruby/rails person to use elixir/phoenix it generally takes a much longer time to teach people what is actually going on inside the system. These are not the same thing. The 2nd one is critical when you are building the systems.
The second one means that in some cases it might actually be better to take experienced erlang people and teach them elixir/phoenix.
geofflane
It will take your average Rails developer a matter of weeks to learn Phoenix and Elixir. I wouldn’t worry about hiring if you can hire Ruby devs and work with them for a few weeks to get them up to speed.
hubertlepicki
I think there’s nothing better than being able to solve the problems Ruby can’t solve (easily). If you od have use case where Ruby will struggle - and Elixir won’t - push for trying Elixir in that context. It can be part of API ,something simple. If you are able to show real engineering value - others will become interesed.
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