[ANN] June BostonRB Meeting

[Patrick Robertson]

Good morning Rubyists,

I already announced the June meeting at the May meeting, but consider this double announced! We have a great themed night lined up for you in June. We are inviting the creator of the Phoenix web framework, Chris McCord, and former BostonRB organizer, Brian Cardarella, to give a pair of talks on Elixir and Phoenix. In many ways I believe the framework and the language to be spiritual successors to Ruby/Rails in terms of technology and would love to give you a chance to see these talks that have been made elsewhere in Ruby/Rails events. Anyways, here are the talks:

Phoenix -- Productive. Reliable. Fast - Chris McCord

Phoenix is an Elixir web framework for building productive, reliable applications with the performance to take on the modern computing world. Together, we’ll review what makes Phoenix great and how it uses Elixir to optimize code for performance – without sacrificing programmer productivity. Along the way, we’ll see neat features like live-reload and generators and how Phoenix’s realtime layer takes on the modern web.

Rails to Phoenix - Brian Cardarella

You may have heard about Phoenix and Elixir. It is a language and framework that give you performance without sacrificing productivity. Learn why Phoenix is a great choice for Rails developers and how you can introduce it into your organization.

As always, it would be very helpful to me if you sign up here: https://guestlistapp.com/events/421239. This way I can order you food and the fine folks at Brightcove can have secured you access to the building before the meeting.

- Patrick

[Patrick Robertson]

Reminder! Today is the day for the meeting. Please sign up if you are interested in rapid building access and/or food+drink.

- Patrick

[Brian Cardarella]

I've had a few people email me about slides:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcardarella/from-rails-to-phoenix

Also the talk was recorded at RailsConf

http://confreaks.tv/videos/railsconf2016-rails-to-phoenix

If your company is interested in exploring Elixir and Phoenix please get in touch with us at DockYard. We have been working with Phoenix for longer than any other consultancy. We also employ Chris McCord, the creator of the framework, so we offer a rather unique expertise not found anywhere else.

We've worked with companies large and small to bring in Phoenix. Whether it is a full rewrite from Rails or just having Phoenix augment an existing Rails application for a major performance boost. In addition we can help your team transition from Ruby/Rails to Elixir/Phoenix.

If you'd like to chat more: https://dockyard.com/contact

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