Elixir for Pythonistas

Have you ever heard of Elixir or Erlang programming languages? Have you ever wondered how whatsapp chat works so smooth and is such a scale?
In this meetup you will learn all this from Pythonista perspective.
Marco Milanesi with a strong Python background and Martin Wiso with 10+ years in Erlang will guide us through Elixir, to learn basic syntax and understand its strong points.

We will also raffle a ticket to the very relevant BEAM lite conference happening just few days after the event.
https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-lite-berlin-2018/ (BEAM is the Virtual machine that Erlang and Elixir run on top)

Great thanks for the conference organizers that offer us this opportunity!

• Audience level:
Python intermediate, Elixir none

• Speakers
Marco Milanesi
Pythonista in the past and developed in many other programming languages, took a new twist in its programming career to join the BEAM world/ecosystem, in particular with the Elixir language because of the functional approach and fault tolerance characteristics.

Martin Wiso, born in Prague Czech Republic now living in Berlin and working as Backend Senior Software Engineer. Specializing in building and scaling cloud-native services. Experience in building mission-critical systems and highly reliable systems that help people to solve all sorts of problems. Building and leading small engineering teams.

• Installation requirements
Install Elixir - https://elixir-lang.org/install.html

• Miscellaneous
Snacks and drinks will be available.

• Gender policy
We believe knowledge is for all and at the same time our events aim primarily to empower women tech community. We request non female attendees to be aware of these situation and make their presence discrete. Eg. by coming with a female plus one to ensure gender balance, avoiding to be heard more than the rest of the attendees in discussions and question sections.

• Photography / video consent
We take photos and videos during the event to use for documentation and in social media such as here in Photo albums, Facebook, Twitter, etc. By coming to the meetup, you willingly give consent to take photos and videos of you. If you do not want to give your consent, please let us know at check-in.

• Contact
Interested in speaking at one of our events? Have a good idea for a Meetup? Get in touch with us at berlinpyladies@gmail.com

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Invite: https://pyladies-berlin.herokuapp.com/
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