#+TITLE: Andy and Golang
#+AUTHOR: Adam Mohammed

* First and foremost I care about my te
* I understand why you would be concerned with the choice to use elixir
** This is not an official choice of the team
** This is an experiment
** We've hired engineers who are mainly experienced in golang
** I acknowledge that some thing

* Concerns around ruby and elixir
- design goals as ruby
- technical difficulties we had
- static typing feels much more important
- federated graphs MUST




* Let's drop programming languages for a second
- 12 people on the team
  - 5? actual owners
  - Lucasmpb
  - Emiliano
  - Hogle
  - Myself


- Here's what I'm looking at
  - we have ideas on products that might improve metal
  - it takes very long to produce those ideas
  - how do we find ways to deliver value?
  - write up documentation on the idea and get feedback from it
  - try it and see what works
  - some blend of the two?