The Greener Grass
summary
Compares Ruby/Rails versus Elixir/Phoenix with concrete tradeoffs: Phoenix uses OTP, built-in clustering and a live dashboard, supports hot code upgrades, and runs roughly 10× faster in the presenter’s experience (one blog found 15×); Rails scaffolds seed a basic app that can grow to ~20,000 files; Nerves shows Elixir used for embedded firmware; Rails keeps faster developer onboarding, Phoenix wins when raw performance, easy scaling, or hot deploys matter.
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chapters (24)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Stefans History
- 2:45Windows
- 3:03PHP
- 5:38History of Ruby
- 6:10Alex
- 8:30Technical Jet Lag
- 9:14About Nerfs
- 10:46History of Raids
- 11:25Optimizing for Programmer Happiness
- 13:42RubyReds
- 15:21Demo
- 17:01Live Dashboard
- 18:46How big is a community
- 19:08Twitter followers
- 19:52Stackoverflow
- 20:36Phoenix
- 22:45Phoenix vs Raid
- 23:28What should I use
- 23:51If you dont have Ruby knowledge
- 24:14Stick with Ruby
- 24:39John Fantechner
- 25:31Conclusion
- 26:28Outro
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