Elixir meetup at Abletech

Abletech hosted the latest Elixir meetup in Wellington

Elixir is rapidly gaining interest and popularity. Kiwi developers connect online to learn and share tips together via Twitter and the AU/NZ Slack group. Wellington Elixir User Group members get together for Hack Nights.

The latest meetup for Wellington Elixir enthusiasts was a great presentation hosted at the new Abletech offices. The group heard from Nahum Wild who demonstrated how to deploy to production.

The event was live streamed to people in Auckland, Hamilton and Canada.

Elixir presentation from Nahum with a break for Sal’s pizza sponsored by Sailthru

Nahum organised video conf gear and the juice. Abletech supplied fresh scones with jam and cream 😋

Nahum demonstrated using Kubernetes to deploy his application to production. The app consisted of:

• React frontend

• Phoenix API backend

• Distillery for building Elixir binaries

• GitLab CI/CD for making Docker Images which are deployed to a Kubernetes cluster

Read more:

The AddressFinder and Rapid Projects teams at Abletech have been using Elixir. Find out more from them here:

• Watch a video to understand GenServers

• See how Nigel Ramsay configures VS Code to format Elixir code

• Read about the Elixir equivalent of Rspec’s focus: true

• Find out more about the Wellington Elixir Group

• Find out about converting an existing Ruby application to Elixir