If you've ever used a web framework, you may have had to choose between productivity and performance. With Phoenix, you don't have to make that choice, you get both! And much more. Phoenix is a web framework written in Elixir. It provides the building blocks for creating fast, efficient, scalable web services. It supports the standard request/response model, but also provides support for WebSockets out of the box. In this talk, I'll show you just how easy it is to get up and running with Phoenix by building an application, live! You'll learn about: Routing Blazing fast template rendering Communicating with databases Realtime messaging with Phoenix Channels Releasing to production Phoenix certainly has a lot to offer. Come join in the fun.