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.

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Talk2: Beam Extreme - don't do this at home by Miriam Pena

Who can't use an extra performance boost now than then? This talk collects a set of outrageous stunts and maybe-controversial defying acts I have seen and sometimes made in production, that can give the Erlang Virtual Machine that extra speed or memory edge on different scenarios.

Warning! Don't copy-paste these at home like if they came straight from Stack Overflow, with great power comes great responsibility.

About the Speaker

Miriam loves to architect scalable, high performance, high concurrency, and high availability systems. Bonus point if they are written in Erlang/Elixir. She is a Staff Engineer at AdRoll, designing critical parts of their AdServers infrastructure and organizer of the Erlang and Elixir meetup in San Francisco. Prior to AdRoll, she provided Erlang specialized consultancy and studied Computer Science Engineering from La Coruña University in Spain. Voted one of the women to watch in 2018 by Women 2.0

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About Brex, Our sponsor & Host.

Brex is revolutionizing financial services for businesses, starting with corporate cards for startups. We are building the product from first principles, enabling us to have unparalleled features and a seamless, modern experience for our customers. With backing from top venture firms and industry veterans such as Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, Brex is one of the fastest-growing startups to date.

Our team is committed to creating a driven and diverse company with ambitious people from wide-ranging backgrounds. We are looking for people with a strong sense for exceptional products, a keen eye to detail, and comfort learning new technologies. We'd love to talk if this is you!

We are looking forward to seeing you again!!!