Elixir - Back to Basics

Bleacher Report (http://eng.bleacherreport.com/) has been gracious enough to host our next Bay Area Elixir Meetup!

We'll cover a number of topics surrounding Elixir basics, from pipes and pattern matching to parsing binaries and project structure.

Each talk will cover the fundamentals as well as tips that even the most experienced Alchemist can use to improve the performance and composability of their code.

Michael Wood on Crutches

Crutches (https://github.com/mykewould/crutches) is a Elixir library based off the ActiveSupport Ruby gem. Created for those who wanted to contribute to an open source project, and learn the Elixir language in the process. The talk will take a brief look at how crutches came to be, where crutches is headed, and lessons learned so far.

Sean Callan on Pattern Matching

Sean will give an introduction and overview of one of Elixir's most elegant and noteworthy features: pattern matching. From the basic syntax to comprehensive examples of everyday use, this talk demonstrates one Elixir's most valuable language features.

Elixir Command Line Apps 101 with Booker Bense

Booker will cover Elixir's command line functionality with

a walkthrough of using escript, parsing command line arguments, defining a main function, and how to stop an application.

BEAM Internals with Sonny

Processes are a defining and foundational part of Elixir and its underlying BEAM VM. Sonny will dive deep into the BEAM scheduler and memory layout to satiate your every desire for eternal Elixir mastery.