About the Authors

Ben Marx is one of the first developers to use Elixir at scale. As a lead developer at Bleacher Report, he was intimately involved in their transition from Ruby on Rails. His involvement spans the whole development cycle, from the initial plans for the Elixir migration through recruiting, development, production, and debugging that live system.

José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language and was once a member of the Rails Core Team. He graduated with an engineering degree from São Paulo University, Brazil, and has a Master of Science from Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is also co-founder and Director of R&D at Plataformatec, a consultancy firm based in Brazil. He is the author of Programming Phoenix [TV16] ...

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