{"id":5718,"date":"2016-09-30T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/?p=5718"},"modified":"2016-09-30T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T18:22:09","slug":"highlights-of-rubyconf-brazil-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.plataformatec.com.br\/2016\/09\/highlights-of-rubyconf-brazil-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights of RubyConf Brazil 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week happened the biggest Ruby-related conference in Latin America, RubyConf Brazil. Our team was present in this edition, which by the way, was particularly interesting, therefore I’d like to share some highlights.<\/p>\n

\"Plataformatec<\/p>\n

The first highlight comes from the night before the event. We went to a bar with some conference speakers. It was really fun to chat with everyone there. Besides, Serdar Do\u011fruyol<\/a>, who talked about the Crystal framework called Kemal, brought us a box of Turkish Delights<\/a>. And when I say “delights”, I mean it :yum:.<\/p>\n

During the event, I made new friends and met old ones. I had great conversations about hiring, team building, technologies and mainly Ruby and Elixir. It is very clear that the community is more mature than ever.<\/p>\n

\"RubyConf<\/p>\n

Talking about Elixir, this year there were a high number of languages being talked about. As I could list, I’ve seen talks about Clojure, Crystal, JavaScript, Go, Ruby and Elixir.<\/p>\n

Another thing that caught my attention was the large number of people trying Elixir in Brazil. I was even more surprised to know that a lot of them already have production-running apps. Here are some interesting talks about Elixir:<\/p>\n