Error Handling and Beam Extreme

Join us on our April's Meetup at Brex! We have an incredible day planned with two amazing talks (and delicious food and drinks).

Where:

Brex, 153 Townsend St 6th floor, San Francisco

Agenda:

6:00 Doors open, food and networking!
6:45 Show:

• A New Error Handling Library by Lizzie Paquette
• Beam Extreme: Don't do this at home by Miriam Pena

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Talk1: A New Error Handling Library by Lizzie Paquette

In Elixir, the Ok/Error tuple is a common return value; however, the “with” statement is the only built-in language construct provided to handle such values. Result, Brex’s in-house error handling library, provides developers with novel tools to handle the Ok/Error tuple. Like other libraries of its kind, the library draws inspiration from Haskell’s Either monad but separates itself by supplying handy tuple manipulation functions that ease the development process.

About the Speaker

Lizzie Paquette is a systems software engineer at Brex with a background in programming languages and compilers. She previously worked on a Haskell to hardware compiler at Columbia University and the Hack compiler at Facebook. Before that she moonlighted as a neuroscientist doing epilepsy research and a pure mathematician. At Brex she mainly works on generating and maintaining in house libraries and frameworks.