How I Do Stuff

As Erlang's popularity grows, it keeps breaking into new verticals and is adopted by start-ups and Fortune 100 companies alike. In this track we get to listen to how they use the tools, monitor and test their systems. This track will include the war stories and experience reports of novice and expert users alike, looking at the benefits Erlang brings to these new business segments and introduce current and future distributed architectures.

The Erlang Eco-System and its VM

In this track, you will learn from the leading experts and Erlang committers about new language constructs, virtual machine implementations and powerful libraries which together form the Erlang eco-system. Esoteric VM implementations are presented, alongside improvements and enhancements to the existing ones. You will learn how many of its features work and how to best use them to write fast and efficient code.

Distribution and Scalability

Gone are the days of the mainframe; infrastructure software for the 21st Century needs to be distributed, flexible and scale horizontally. How useful is an effective big data analytics algorithm if you can not move the data cheaply and efficiently, or what is the point of an instant messaging cluster if it will not scale linearly with demand. The speakers in this track have used non mainstream technologies for messaging backbones, computing clouds and massive clusters, streaming media and instant messaging. Come and find out how.

Cool Tools & Gadgets

The Tools & Gadgets Track explores the latest tools and library applications for Erlang Developers, Testers and Operations engineers. It alsolooks at the emerging set of principles, methods and practices for communication, collaboration and integration between Software development and operations staff. Erlang old timers will say they have been doing DevOps for years, only calling it something different. This track looks at setting that record straight.

Concurrency & Multi-core

Scaling vertically by adding more powerful hardware was a thing of the past. We scaled horizontally, by adding more commodity hardware. With the coming of age of mega-core architectures, we have the choice of either adding more hardware or more cores, or both. Erlang style concurrency puts us ahead of the game when it comes to scaling with both approaches.

Brewing with Elixir

Elixir is a meta-programmable, functional language built on top the Erlang VM. It is a dynamic language with hygienic macros that leverages Erlang's ability to build concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant applications with hot code upgrades. This track unveils the rapid development on a distributed platform and modern tools, providing you all the benefits of massive concurrency with the speed of scripting.