BEAM Virtual Meetup: Come listen to SAŠA JURIĆ, author of Elixir in Action

Good morning, afternoon, evening and night, depending on where you are. Our August Virtual BEAM Meetup GMT bringing together the community in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas is happening August 19th with Elixir/OTP in Action author Saša Jurić. BYOB, Coffee & Orange Juice, lots of passion, curiosity and desire to learn and share.

Meetup links will be made available closer to the date, but remember that to access them, you need to register before the meetup starts. If new to the group, please sign up with your full name and photo. Due to past incidents, we vet every user joining the group, a necessary when you allow everyone to unmute themselves.

Schedule (all times are in BST):

6.00pm: Welcome
6.05pm: Saša Jurić on Parenting Children
6.45pm: Q&A
7:00pm-late: We will break up into themed rooms. Themes will include:

• Starting with Erlang, Elixir and the Ecosystem. Come ask questions or help answer them.
• Show and Tell: Discovering and showcasing libraries and tools. Come demo your discoveries.
• Monitoring Tools: Including a WombatOAM Demo

Saša Jurić on Parenting Children

Abstract
In a supervision tree, non-terminal (parent) nodes should usually be supervisors, while leaf nodes are workers powered by behaviours such as GenServer. However, it occasionally makes sense to run child processes directly under a worker process. In this talk, we'll examine a couple of such scenarios, and discuss the mechanics of manual parenting of child processes. Finally we'll look at an Elixir library called Parent, which can help simplifying the task of manual process parenting.

Bio
Saša is a freelancer helping companies with the adoption of Elixir. He has many years of experience building server systems, as well as desktop applications using various languages and technologies. For the past nine years, his focus has been on building backend systems using Elixir and Erlang. He is the author of "Elixir in Action", and an occasional blogger at theerlangelist.com.