Rails 5 is a bloat too far for my liking as well.  ActionCable&#x27;s dependency on redis is too fat a pill to swallow, especially given that some of the existing ActiveRecord backends have pub&#x2F;sub capabilities.<p>The result is that I&#x27;m learning Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix and having the same reaction Dave Thomas describes in his new book, that is, finding anew the joy of programming.