The Elixir Year: A Technical Sabbatical

The author is undertaking a year-long technical sabbatical in 2025 to master Elixir, transitioning from over a decade of Python development, with a structured quarterly curriculum progressing from language fundamentals and OTP through Phoenix web development, distributed systems on the BEAM VM, and concluding with production-grade systems design. Key milestones include building an open-source package, deploying a monetizable Phoenix Liveview application, and creating a production distributed system while potentially attending the Recurse Center and contributing to open-source projects.

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