Learning New Technologies

or

How I Learned to Stop Being Productive and Get Nothing Done for the Hackaton

The Unknowns

• Docker
• Elm
• Lambda Architecture (built on Kafka)

• learning curve
• able to quickly set up dev environment
• unclear how to optimize development workflow

Elm

• functional programming with types
• enforces unidirectional data flow
• makes it difficult to "hack"
• steep learning curve
• seems like it could be very good for maintainability