Nick Gerakines
Erlang author and evangelist
Electronic Arts
Nick Gerakines is a software developer and technologist in the Silicon
Valley. At Electronic Arts he leads the Rupture infrastructure team,
building next generated web services and data storage systems, driving
test framework development and highly concurrent Erlang application
systems. Previously a Yahoo employee, he worked on the Delicious 2.0
launch on the back-end team as well as within the Mobile group at Yahoo
developing native iPhone applications and exposing other Yahoo groups
to ways to developing iPhone applications. He is the author of the
recent book "Facebook Application Development" (John Wiley & Sons,
Inc, published 2008) and is currently writing another book for the same
publisher titled "Developing Erlang Web Applications" expected to
release in mid 2009.
- Nick's Blog
- Follow @ngerakines on Twitter
- Facebook Application Development on Amazon
Nick Gerakines is Giving the Following Talks
Test-driven development with Erlang
Test-driven development may not be the first thing you think of when Erlang comes to mind, but it should. Using test-driven development, you can save substantial amounts of time, effort and energy. Nick's presentation will step through Erlang related test-driven development patterns as well as the tools and software available to Erlang engineers.
