10 Reasons Why I Keep Choosing Elixir & Phoenix - Bruce Williams

The modern web is awash in choices—of paradigms, languages, and frameworks—and the decisions you make today will have long-term consequences that go beyond the code itself. Will you hate the app you're working on in six months? Will maintaining it along with its snarl of dependencies drive you nuts? Will keeping it up and running make you (or your partner) want to throw your phone out of a window at 4am? What impact might the features and aesthetics of the technology choices you make today have on your quality of life once that shiny novelty has worn off?

Also, may I make a polite recommendation?

In this talk I'll pick a mere 10 (yes, technical) reasons why I've been writing production Elixir/Phoenix applications for the last 5 years, why I still love doing it, and how this technology choice has helped me retain a surprising amount of my sanity and love of programming along the way.

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6:30 pm - Pizza and drinks
7:00 pm - Intros and General business items
7:05 pm - Speaker
7:45 pm - QA and hangout

About our Speaker:

Bruce Williams is a deeply unrepentant early adopter and polyglot programmer with far too many opinions about the tools he uses on a daily basis. By day and occasionally night, Bruce is a Staff Engineer at GitHub, where he focuses on application architecture. In his copious free time, Bruce maintains Absinthe, the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, engages in opportunistic conference tourism, enjoys learning languages, and writes books for Pragmatic Bookshelf.