What is the best Elixir talk to present to a team to try Elixir?

[brightball]

I’ve got slides only, but this talk has been very well received. I probably need to give it somewhere that I can record it one day.

If you get the opportunity, give an Elixir talk at a Polyglot conference

Periodically, we see conversations on here with people asking how we can better promote Elixir. I never really thought about it until this weekend, but we need to give Elixir talks at non-Elixir venues. A lot of the early Elixir adoption has come from Ruby world and probably a big part of that is Elixir having so many promotional opportunities at RailsConf itself. I still remember Chris McCord giving an 8 hour Elixir session at RailsConf in Chicago (that I passed on because, who needs another l…

[crusso]

Right, that was the one that came to mind for me as well. If you are presenting to a group of developers that are full-stack, the LiveView demo that Chris McCord gave is very impressive. You have to watch Chris’ presentation more than once to fully appreciate all that he did so quickly with Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView.

[Essstp]

I liked this one when I was first getting into Elixir: Elixir by the Bellyful - Bryan Hunter. It’s a little older, but made it super simple to understand.

Honestly, I think Sasa’s talk is one of the most impressive conference talks I’ve seen online. I always loved this slide from this talk:

[hobbes]

In the The Language of the System talk, Rich Hickey comes to the same conclusion, namely that Erlang provides a holistic approach to building systems. The main challenge is that the industry prefers heterogeneous architectures, for various reasons.

[TheFirstAvenger]

I always recommend Dave Thomas keynote from the 2014 ElixirConf: https://youtu.be/5hDVftaPQwY