Mental bridge from Ruby to Elixir?

[gregvaughn]

@orestis

I’m thinking of collecting all this philosophy into a talk for some next ElixirConf… my working title is “Scaling down with Elixir”

Honestly, I could imagine that turning into some sort of “Elixir Recipes” book if you took it to the next level.

[orestis]

@sasajuric

You should totally submit such talk, and I hope I’ll be there to see it live

Well, I’ve already submitted one other talk proposal already for the upcoming ElixirConf.EU… so I did the obvious thing and submitted this one as well. It’s a long wait until the selection so I just have to forget about it until then

@gregvaughn

Honestly, I could imagine that turning into some sort of “Elixir Recipes” book if you took it to the next level.

I’m not that crazy… yet

(BTW, it might not show in this post but I’m having a “celebrities talked to me” moment here )

[josefrichter]

@sasajuric

Many of us try to promote Elixir by talking about more complex scenarios such as massive scalability, fault-tolerance, and high availability. I believe that this leaves many people with a feeling that Elixir is an overkill for their smaller-scale problems.

Having a talk which showcases how in simple scenarios you can do a bunch of things with Elixir alone, without needing to reach for external products, might help people understand that Elixir is not only made for large-scale systems, but can also do wonders for smaller ones.

…ideally up to the point where people would look at a problem and think “Rails would be overkill for this”

@orestis

“Scaling down with Elixir”

@orestis

next ElixirConf

@gregvaughn

some sort of “Elixir Recipes”

^ I like where this thread is going Elixir Recipes could be some sort of community-driven Wiki maybe… Or at least a blog post.

Thank you everybody!