Virtual BEAM Meetup: OCaml on the BEAM & Web Scraping with Elixir

Our next Virtual BEAM Meetup GMT bringing together the community in Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas is happening Wednesday November 11th with two presentations: one on Caramel, OCaml on the BEAM and the second on Crawly, an open source web-crawler written in Elixir. BYOB, Coffee & Orange Juice, lots of passion, curiosity and desire to learn and share. Start time is 6pm GMT (London), 7pm CET (Paris, Stockholm), 1pm EST (New York) and 10am PST (San Francisco, Vancouver).

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, as well as verified zoom accounts. Aliases will not be let into the meeting.

Schedule (all times are in GMT):

6.00pm: Welcome
6.05pm: Leandro Ostera - OCaml on the BEAM
6.35pm: Oleg Tarasenko - Web Scraping with Elixir
7.05pm-late: We will break up into themed rooms. This month, one will be dedicated to languages on the BEAM where you can ask questions on Caramel and the other BEAM languages and their implementation. The second room will be dedicated to show and tell, where you can demo libraries and other cool applications, obviously starting with a Crawly demo. The third room will be an open room where you can chat about anything.

Title: OCaml on the BEAM

Abstract: Let's explore the OCaml language and how to run it on the BEAM with Caramel
Bio: Leandro Ostera is a software developer at Erlang Solutions. He's originally from small town Argentina, and enjoys building compilers and build systems at Abstract Machines in his spare time.

Title: Web Scraping with Elixir

Abstract: Oleg will talk about web scraping, explaining the areas of usage, and the most common problems of the area. He will present a web scraping framework for Elixir called Crawly, which can be used to extract structural data from a wide range of websites.
Bio: Oleg Tarasenko is an Erlang and Elixir developer in the Erlang Solutions Stockholm office, working with cutting edge systems in a variety of verticals. Originally from Ukraine, he used to work in ScrapingHub, where he got the inspiration for Crawly.