Jesper Louis Andersen
Creator of the eTorrent project
Jesper is a Danish programming language geek who has programmed in numerous different programming languages. He has a keen interest in weaving functional programming with parallelism and concurrency. He likes to try out new ideas from theoretic research by finding a real-world application and building a system around the idea in order to evaluate its usefulness. In the process he likes to apply knowledge from different areas of mathematics and computer science and he has a curiosity for anything new.
He is the principal programmer and leader of two open source projects, implementing the BitTorrent Peer-to-peer content distribution protocol in Haskell and Erlang respectively
He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and is currently pursuing his masters degree. His studies has been centered around theoretical aspects of compiler design, semantics, type theory and formal verification.
He is the principal programmer and leader of two open source projects, implementing the BitTorrent Peer-to-peer content distribution protocol in Haskell and Erlang respectively
He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and is currently pursuing his masters degree. His studies has been centered around theoretical aspects of compiler design, semantics, type theory and formal verification.
Jesper Louis Andersen is Giving the Following Talks
eTorrent, writing Peer-to-Peer clients in Erlang
Erlang is perfectly suited for a modern distributed world. Part of this world is also a relatively new kind of client/server paradigm, namely Peer-to-Peer communication. We believe that this kind of communication is important to the modern internet and hence, the eTorrent project was born to gauge the usefulness of Erlang in a heavily distributed Peer-to-peer setting.
This talk is about using Erlang for implementing Peer-to-Peer clients. I claim Erlang made us write an efficient BitTorrent client in a fraction of the effort compared to other clients. I claim our client is more robust than the competition for normal operation. And I claim the Erlang mentality fits the Peer-to-Peer model well. I also explain how we utilize the Erlang platform to implement the client in an OTP-idiomatic way, and how we differ from the mainstream implementations.
This talk is about using Erlang for implementing Peer-to-Peer clients. I claim Erlang made us write an efficient BitTorrent client in a fraction of the effort compared to other clients. I claim our client is more robust than the competition for normal operation. And I claim the Erlang mentality fits the Peer-to-Peer model well. I also explain how we utilize the Erlang platform to implement the client in an OTP-idiomatic way, and how we differ from the mainstream implementations.
