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Great talk.

Is it hard to find developers familiar with elixir/phoenix? Or is hiring RoR developers and training them to work on elixir/phoenix a better option than specifically hiring people familiar with elixir/phoenix?

Just curious to learn about your experience, as there is not much data available on hiring elixir/phoenix devs.

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Most of our Elixir/Phoenix clients have retrained existing Rails devs. As I spoke about in the talk, the initial retraining period is about a week. Reading Part One of the PragProg Programming Phoenix book will introduce the dev to Elixir syntax and FP basics. Their existing knowledge of Rails can be applied to Phoenix apps where they can start making contributions.

However, this does not make expert Elixir or Phoenix devs. Reading up and learning about OTP and how concurrency works in Elixir/Erlang is necessary to continue to advance.

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