Learn you some Erlang for great good.

Would you believe that we all use Erlang almost every day of our lives! In all likelihood, that last mobile call you made probably ended up being routed through an Erlang system somewhere in the world.

Erlang has been in use in Ericsson since 1986 and been gaining popularity in the wider community since it was opened-sourced in 1998. Designed originally to meet the needs of Ericsson in their telephony hardware, Erlang has since been used to deliver resilient, scalable and reliable databases, trading platforms and backend services for gaming and social media.

You'll be introduced to Erlang's concurrency model, pattern matching and fault tolerance, and learn how it achieves all this while not allowing you to assign the same variable twice!

Gareth Fleming, a programmer at Instil, will be presenting an introduction to the basics of Erlang's syntax and runtime. It will be a code-heavy presentation which you should feel free to follow along with.

Chris McGrath, a freelance Ruby and Rails developer, will be introducing OTP supervisors and generic servers, as well as presenting Elixir, a Ruby-esque syntax running on the Erlang runtime.