Erlang

EMPEX Speaker: James Lavin

James will be speaking at EMPEX on May 19th about “Lessons Learned Building a Medication Service at Teladoc and How Ecto Saved the Day.” James has a very interesting history, so I hope you enjoy this interview with him.

EMPEX Speaker: Bobby Grayson

Over a boozy bottomless brunch in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood, Bobby and I talked about his upcoming talk at the May 20th conference: “Seussical Halting, Indeterminate Faulting.” We talked about how Bobby came to his love of computer science, how and why he found Elixir…

EMPEX Speaker: Juan Soto

Juan Soto, an engineer at Capsule, speaks at EMPEX on May 20th. The title of his presentation is “Functional Data Structures.” Juan sat with me for a bit to talk about how he came to Elixir and his thoughts about the language and community.

EMPEX Speaker: John Kelly

John Kelly, a Senior Backend Developer at Bleacher Report, speaks at EMPEX on May 20th. The title of his presentation is “Monitoring Production Elixir Applications.” John sat with me for a bit to talk about how he came to Elixir and what he’s doing with Elixir in production.

Being and Time

Exploring state in Elixir

State is the root of all evil…. While state in programming languages is undesirable, in the real world state abounds. (J0e Armstrong, in “Why OO…