12th Elixir Rhein Main Meetup

Good news everyone!

We're on a roll and are happy to announce yet a new meetup!

This one is going to be special for two reasons:

• 🔥 New location: For the first time, this meetup will be hosted at CLARK
• 🔥 Great guest speaker: Francesco Cesarini, Founder of Erlang Solutions and co-author of Erlang Programming

We want to meet up in a friendly atmosphere to talk about Elixir, OTP, Erlang and related technologies.

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1. Welcome and Pizza
2. Keynote "The Erlang Ecosystem from behind the Trenches: WhatsApp's Secret Sauce" by Francesco Cesarini (see abstract below)
3. Lightning Round Talks
4. Meetup Networking and open Discussion

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Abstract: The Erlang Ecosystem from behind the Trenches: WhatsApp's Secret Sauce

Erlang is a programming language designed for the Internet Age, although it pre-dates the Web. It is a language designed for multi-core computers, although it pre-dates them too. It is a "beacon language", to quote Haskell guru Simon Peyton-Jones, in that it more clearly than any other language demonstrates the benefits of concurrency-oriented programming. This language, about a decade ago, turned into an ecoystem of languages, with over 35 of them running on the BEAM Virtual Machine today, the most popular one being Elixir.

In this talk, Francesco will introduce Erlang from behind the trenches, looking at how its history influenced its constructs, constructs which in turn helped shape Elixir. He will be doing so from a personal perspective, with anecdotes from his time at the Ericsson computer science lab at a time when the language was being heavily influenced and later when working on the OTP R1 release, all the way to Frameworks such as Phoenix, Nerves and Nx.

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You want to learn something about Elixir?
Please join us, everyone is welcome! 👋

You want to give a talk or teach us something about your learnings with Elixir? Please send a message to the organizers.