Expressive Power in Elixir

How the Smallest Things Make the Biggest Difference

The function, the macro, OTP, Agent + Task, and Hex are big in Elixir. What about humble namespace and module nesting? We’ll talk about what constructs like these bring to the mix in everyday alchemy!

About the speaker:
Joseph Yiasemides builds & tests servers at Erlang Solutions in Kraków where he works on projects involving TURN/STUN, JSON/HTTP APIs, XMPP, and AMQP. He is the original author of the Trust Store plugin (a TLS certificate whitelist) for Pivotal’s enterprise message broker RabbitMQ. In December began on Erlang Solutions’ TURN/STUN server in Elixir which helps web clients perform NAT traversal to establish P2P communication. Joseph recently returned from sabbatical at the Recurse Center in NYC.