Drinking the Elixir
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Elixir is a functional language that's growing in popularity as a stepping stone into functional programming, thanks to its strengths in areas like concurrency, fault tolerance and scalability combined with a syntax that is simple to learn, and feels very familiar for those with experience of languages like Ruby or Python. However, it is a very different beast - a functional style, new tools, and Erlang and Elixir libraries to learn, and while many people are experimenting with it, it's not quite mainstream for apps in the wild yet.
Our Elixir journey began around two years ago, when we started breaking out parts of our monolith and rebuilding it as microservices in Elixir. It was a chance to introduce boundaries, and consider performance from the ground up for an application for which performance was starting to become a concern as the customer base was growing. This talk will tell the story of a journey into a new, functional language and discuss how we approached decisions around where to start breaking the monolith apart.
About Jo Cranford
Jo is a technical leader with a passion for enabling teams to work better and grow together. Her interest in workplace culture led her to Culture Amp, where she is part of a global movement to make the world a better place to work while putting her technical background to good use.
When she's not working, she's a maker of things. Jo spends her free time creating artwork and papercraft projects, and her cupboards are bursting with paper scraps, paintbrushes and sparkly trimmings.
3 окт 2018
