Omer Kilic
Erlang Solutions
Omer is an Embedded Systems Engineer working on
Erlang Embedded, a Knowledge Transfer Partnership project in
collaboration with University of Kent which aims to bring the benefits
of concurrent systems development using Erlang to the field of embedded
systems; through investigation, analysis, software development and
evaluation.
Before joining Erlang Solutions,
Omer was a research student in the Embedded Systems Lab at the
University of Kent, working on a reconfigurable heterogeneous computing
framework as part of his PhD thesis. He was also the technical editor
for the Raspberry Pi User Guide published by Wiley.
Omer Kilic is Giving the Following Talks
Taking Back Embedded: The Erlang Embedded Framework
Erlang was originally designed to control telephony switches at
Ericsson which, by definition, are embedded systems. Somewhere along
the line the application area changed dramatically and now Erlang is
being used to tackle challenges which involve gratuitous amount of
parallelism and “The Cloud”.
The Internet of
Things is the physical extension of cloud which describes how everyday
objects around us will become sources of data that will transform our
daily lives. Analysts forecast the number of Internet connected devices
to reach 50 billion within the next decade, which signifies that we need
to think of new ways to architect these new generation of connected
devices.
This talk will demonstrate how, by
creating a layered architecture for hardware modules and partitioning up
complex systems in smaller units, testing becomes easier, runtime
errors are contained and the architecture becomes maintainable. Using
Erlang processes as compositional units to describe these systems is a
new proposal which stands out and challenges conventional approaches.
Talk objectives: This
talk aims to provide an overview of the current state of Erlang in the
embedded domain and talk about our plans to help speed up the adoption
rate of Erlang in embedded projects.
Target audience: Hardware
and software engineers interested in discovering new tools and
methodologies for tackling the next generation of connected embedded
devices.