Michael Schaefermeyer - Buildings start-ups with Elixir | Code BEAM STO 19

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BUILDINGS START-UPS WITH ELIXIR
by Michael Schaefermeyer
THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS:
Insights
Challenges
Experiences
TALK LEVEL: Beginner
ABSTRACT
Start-ups face unique opportunities and challenges often different from established businesses. One opportunity is the liberty to choose the tech stack one deems most fitting (or likes best). Yet a wrong decision will cause major headaches in the future.
This talk will shed light on how Elixir helps to build reliable products in a short amount of time. It will also discuss what drawbacks it has compared to other languages.
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THE SPEAKER - MICHAEL SCHAEFERMEYER
Successfully taught Elixir to juniors and built start-ups in it.
Michael started using Elixir in 2014 at his job at Bleacher Report, where he introduced first proof of concepts in Elixir, some of which developed into crucial services still in use today. He went on to co-found Inverse.com, where he wrote the vast majority of backends services in Elixir. He wrote a few hex packages, including CORSPlug and Boltex, a driver for the binary protocol that Neo4j. After Inverse Michael joined the company builder lab25 in Münster, where he acted as interims-CTO for startups written in Elixir.
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[@victorlimavocals]

It is really good to revisit this in 2022 and see how much things have changed. There are now much more libraries in the Elixir ecosystem, some of the problems still exist, but Elixir has grown very fast and gained a lot of market, the community already fixed many of the issues described here.

[@KilianCireraSant]

We always hear about the good parts of Elixir, which are many and not widely known, but I liked this talk because it goes through a few challenges many new Elixir projects will face, which are generally discussed even less in the community.

[@randomizednamme]

Really great talk, agree with pretty much everything you said (especially the downsides for someone who is just building a new product). Good job dealing with the guy at the end who sounded very set in his ways and just brought up things you already addressed ;)

[@striker865]

Elixir performance is insane

[@tschundeee]

Really good talk. Thanks for sharing your experiences.

[@vertie2090]

I feel he's right just about everything he said

[@evans8245]

mate, the first couple of "issues" no JWT, no Admin Backends, these are thing you have to do yourself or wait for the community to catch up, you can't fault an entire language for not giving you the bells and whistles you are looking for. Compromise and develop those components with languages that offer them.

[@ShuaibShubby]

Cool talk

[@ruhnet]

Great info in here.

[@asdf3568]

ICQ? Who uses that anymore?