Panel:

Mark Erikson
Eric Berry
Josh Adams

Special Guests: Steve Bussey In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Steve Bussey about Elixir Panel. Steve is a software architect at SalesLoft, which is a company that does sales enablement software to help teams grow and become sales organizations. They talk about how his company was introduced to Elixir, why Rubyists are leaving for Elixir, and sharing sessions. They also touch on how developers have reacted to new changes within the company, the biggest hurdles people face when getting into Elixir, and more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Steve intro
Software architect at SalesLoft
Started off with Ruby and now work heavily with Elixir
What size is the engineer team at SalesLoft?
How did Elixir get introduced to your company?
Having a single advocate for a language promoting it in the company
The idea of being a “champion”
Shaping how other learn and consume
What do you think the reason is for Ruby developers leaving for Elixir?
Promises that Elixir provides
Erlang
A different paradigm
JavaScript and React
Sharing sessions
Serving your users properly
Their Rails application
Microservices
How have the developers reacted to these changes coming in?
Slow process
Professional development initiative
Everyone that’s put in the time haven’t’ said anything bad about Elixir
What was the biggest hurdle for people getting into Elixir?
The importance of asking questions
The XY problem
And much, much more!

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EMx 013: Elixir Panel with Steve Bussey