Elixir TO March 2026 - In Person & Remote

Hey Toronto Elixir,
Winter is in full swing in Toronto and we are back for our first meetup of 2026!

This event will be BOTH in person and online! The hybrid format has been pretty successful so we are very excited to, once again, bring together local Torontonians and people from all over the world that we met during the online only meetups!

We will be hosted by BitGo, with pizza and beverages provided for in-person attendees courtesy of Instinct Science.

The appointment is for Thursday March 19th, doors open at 6:00 pm at the BitGo's Toronto office at 110 Spadina, 9th floor or online.

Talks will start around 6:30pm.

First, we're excited to welcome Francesco Cesarini, Founder of Erlang Solutions and author of Erlang Programming and Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP (https://github.com/francescoc). He'll be joining us in person for his talk Thinking Concurrency: Dwelling in Erlang and Elixir.

The functional paradigm has been influencing mainstream languages for decades, making developers more efficient whilst helping reduce maintenance costs. As we are faced with a programming model that needs to scale on multi-core architectures and distributed environments, concurrency becomes critical. In these concurrency models, immutability, a key feature of functional programming paradigm will become even more evident. To quote Simon Peyton Jones, future concurrent languages will be functional; they might not be called functional, but the features will be. At this meetup, we will be discussing why!

Next up, Ben Schultzer will present SQL - An exploration of foreign language integration in Elixir where he'll take a closer look at the state-of-the-art in database connection pools and disprove 30 years of dogma.

If you wanna have a chat, look for our community on the #toronto channel of the Elixir Slack https://elixir-lang.slack.com

p.s.
Given that this is also a remote event please feel free to extend the invite outside the Toronto community as well! We'll be happy to have you!