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Paulo Renato

Hi all :)

I am a very passionate Developer... I really love programming to the point I get my wife being jealous of my Laptop ;)

As a self teached developer I am hungry to learn and play with new stuff all the time, like Docker, Apache Kafka, Rust and any cool stuff I came around in Twitter or other interesting places on the internet, dev.to is one of them recently.

I spent my time in OOP land, being a strong advocate of SOLID and Clean Code I really recommend for any Developer to read our Bible, The Pragmatic Programmer book, followed by the Clean Code book. This books changed the way a code forever and led me to creation of the Resource Design Pattern.

But recently I discovered a language with a huge potential on The Canary And The Caterpillar talk by Neil Crawford in this DevOps meetup around moving from Monolithic to Micro-Services architecture using Elixir.

So after reading the articles why Elixir and Why Elixir has Great Potential plus some more Youtube videos with real use cases of adopting it for massive and demanding projects I just got really hooked on it to the point of establish this learning path for Elixir.

Currently I am professionally working on the backend team that builds, in PHP7, the API's for the e-commerce Apps that we develop and maintain for some of the biggest UK retailers.

If you are curious to know more about me just visit exadra37.com or search in Google for my nickname.

Feel free to ask any question you may be wondering the answer for ;)

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Ben Halpern

Great to have you. We'd love love love more Elixir content if you'd like to submit some posts 😁

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Paulo Renato

On the moment I am just learning Elixir, but I will be glad to contribute once I have something useful that I can share ;)

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Niko 👩🏾‍💻

I should really finish the Pragmatic Programmer and Clean Code, thanks for the reminder of how awesome they are. I love how excited you are about Elixir, I've been hearing buzz around it but as a super new dev I am not familiar with how it could be applied in web dev. I'd love to read some of what you think and you go deeper into it :).

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Paulo Renato

That books are very important to understand the principles of writing solid and clean code.

For web developments is very well suited... see techworld.com/apps-wearables/how-e...

The Phoenix framework makes easy to start with web development in Elixir, see phoenixframework.org