EMx 086: Teaching Your Team Elixir with Mike Binns

<p>In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Mike Binns. Mike is a Senior Software Engineer at DockYard, Inc. and he presented at ElixirConf 2019 about getting a whole team new to Elixir up to speed quickly with Cars.com.</p> <p>Mike explains why Elixir was chosen as the technology to use and how much effort and planning goes into helping a team transition. Cars.com had already decided to move onto Elixir and brought on DockYard to train their engineers.</p> <p>Mike advises recognizing the existing team&#39;s previous skill set and experience levels. Mike and fellow DockYard colleague captured what they learned in <a href="https://github.com/TheFirstAvenger/ironman">Project Ironman</a> which automatically adds things like credo, dialyzer, coveralls, mix test watch, etc&hellip; to your project. They then talk about what mob programming is and how it helps to arm a new team. Finally, the panel asks Mike if he would do anything differently and tips for bringing new developers into a running project and team.</p> <h3><strong>Panelists</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Mark Ericksen</p> </li> <li> <p>Josh Adams</p> </li> <li> <p>Sophie DeBenedetto</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Guest</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p>Mike Binns</p> </li> </ul> <h3><strong>Sponsors</strong></h3> <ul> <li> <p><a href="https://devchat.tv/adv-in-angular/">Adventures in Angular Podcast</a></p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.cachefly.com/">CacheFly</a></p> </li> </ul> <h2><strong>____________________________________________________________</strong></h2> <p><strong>&quot;The MaxCoders Guide to Finding Your Dream Developer Job&quot; by Charles Max Wood is now available on Amazon.</strong><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B081MBL5C9/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=devchattv-20&amp;linkId=9d61363241636e2546ef46abba198746&amp;language=en_US"> <strong>Get Your Copy Today!</strong></a></p> <h2><strong>______________________________________________________