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Spotlight: Stephen Bussey (Author) Interview and AMA!

Author Spotlight:
Stephen Bussey
@sb8244

What’s better than a development language built so programmers will love it? Two languages built to enhance the joy of coding! We talked with Stephen Bussey, author of From Ruby to Elixir, about the roadmaps and benefits of moving an organization towards adopting the strengths and flexibility of new paradigms and tooling.

This is also an AMA. Everyone commenting or asking a question will automatically be entered into our drawing to win a copy of From Ruby to Elixir!

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sb8244

sb8244

Author of From Ruby to Elixir and Real-Time Phoenix

Oh my gosh, so sorry on the delay here! I don’t know why I didn’t get notified.

Migrating any old code base to a new code base is incredibly challenging. I did 2 Ruby → Elixir extractions out of the monolith. The most challenging part was indexing literally every single feature / quirk and making sure the new service handled it correctly. It is very easy to miss an item and then introduce a bug.

More generally, adopting Elixir required getting the “non-negotiables” in place. For example, making sure observability, logging, data access, networking, security, framework (we had an internal Ruby framework that we emulated to Elixir), etc. A lot of work went into that, but it was copyable between future apps!

thoh

thoh

Thanks for the interview both Stephen and Erica, I really enjoyed reading it as I knew little of Elixir. I guess I was drawn in by the Ruby part in the title :wink:

Reading the interview I see it has good scaling abilities up, but I like to tinker with IoT and smaller devices like single board computers and devices that run on battery (or are in different ways quite constrained) how would you say Elixir is useful on such devices?

Congratulations with the book!

Thomas

zzz6519003

zzz6519003

So luckily you have the reason which is the work to learn it?

Do you have some suggestions for us? Like list some reasons? :wink:

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