May meetup

As a warmup, Yurii will give a brief overview of interesting talksthat were given at the Erlang Factory SF 2011.

Talk #1: The Concurrent Free Lunch (Alex Kropivny)

Erlang has no barriers to writing parallel code. Featherlight processes and message passing are built into the language itself - what does this mean for our software? How do we leverage this great power responsibly?

We'll be going over failure modes, design issues, monitoring, debugging, and tuning in a massively parallel system. With demonstrations! Our overarching goal is to construct the robust services Erlang is becoming famous for.

Talk #2: Beam.js (Yurii Rashkovskii)

An edited version of the talk that was given at the Factory.

With rising popularity of JavaScript as server-side programming language, wouldn't it be interesting to use potential of both Erlang and JavaScript? Beam.js is a modular JavaScript platform built on top of V8 that connects two powerful languages — JavaScript and Erlang at a very low level by embedding V8 into Erlang VM. With Beam.js JavaScript lovers can piggy back on Erlang’s solid distributed networking infrastructure as well as other powerful components. For Erlang users, it can provide a powerful way to describe top level business logic on top of their robust architectures.

Talk #3: [Lightning talk] Agner (Yurii Rashkovskii)

Libraries distribution mechanisms are key to the creation of a
thriving ecosystem for any programming language. Agner is a new lightweight package index/manager partially inspired by Homebrew and Clojars that is designed to bring simplicity and elegance to the way dependencies are managed.

After that we can discuss other subjects of interest and move to a pub. Planned run time for the event is 3-4hrs or so.

If you want to give a talk, please let the organizer know.