Marx - Adopting Elixir

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More than any other Elixir book thats ever been written, this book is a community book. The early adopters we profile shared their experiences directly in time-consuming interviews; inventors and committers for hundreds of projects made the very libraries we describe in these pages; beta testers tried new releases; and beta readers helped refine each word you find here. We owe our deepest gratitude to each of you and this book is dedicated to you. We cant possibly enumerate all of those that made this book possible, but we have to try.

We would like to thank the prags for believing in this concept. Our dear friend Jackie helped shape the words, Andy has been a constant source of support, Susannah made the start smooth, and Janet has guided the process from end to end. Many others shaped this book, from indexers to artists and copy editors. Thanks to each of you.

Thanks to all of our technical reviewers: Alexandre Hamez, Claudio Ortolina, Dave Marks, Kim Shrier, Maurice Kelly, Nigel Lowry, Saa Juric ,Sean Callahan, Shaun Collette, and Xavier Noria. Whether the suggestions were technical or stylistic, or a sounding board to bounce ideas off of, the book is that much richer and we are grateful for the reviews.

Thanks to Daniel Perez, Dave Marks, Hidetaka Kojo, Lauren Tan, Myron Marston, Pejvan Beigui, Shaun Collett, Steve Cohen, Tetiana Dushenkivska, Tsunenori Oharam, and Yusuke Tanaka for perspective and insight in their interviews. One of the goals of the book was to not only tell our Elixir adoption stories but to hear from varied members of the Elixir community. Each persons interview helped illuminate a different area of Elixir adoption.

Im eternally grateful to Dave Marks for not only hiring me at Bleacher Report but encouraging and supporting meand our entire teamas we undertook the monumental task of moving from our legacy sytem to the new Elixir-based platform. Hes been an insightful mentor and has become a dear friend over these last years.

Many thanks to everyone at Bleacher Report; this was a team effort and we revamped everything from back end to front end to design and we have great plans for a bright future. Thanks especially to Miguel DeAvila for all that youve done to support me over the last year and also to Dave Finocchio for permission to write about Bleacher Report and leading a company Im proud to be a part of.