What I learned migrating a Rails app to Elixir/Phoenix

I’ve been keen on Elixir for a while now. For us at Made by Many the promise of the productivity of Ruby without compromising on raw performance and scalability is rapidly making it a prime candidate for our go-to server-side language of choice. To overcome the Elixir learning curve I’ve done a few things including reading and working the exercises in the excellent Dave Thomas book and attending E