Recap: November 1, 2016 Meetup

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our third in-person meetup. Thanks again to David Jones for recording the talks: find recordings below and on our Youtube channel, youtube.com/indyelixirorg.

A big thanks to our sponsors:

• Expected Behavior for the pizza and drinks
• Lessonly for providing the space
• Manning Publications, who let us give away copies of their two excellent Elixir books. Congrats to Ben and Waseem who won copies of Elixir in Action and The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook, respectively. If you’d like your own copy of either (or any book from Manning’s large collection), they’ve kindly given us a 36% off discount code: ug367.

Talks

Steve Grossi gave an introduction to GenStage, a new Elixir behavior for building data pipelines and the power behind Flow, a concurrent successor to Stream coming soon. Links:

• “All The World’s a GenStage” (slides)
• https://github.com/stevegrossi/lumberjack (example repo)

John Daily gave a fantastic talk “Erlang, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Let Things Fail”, explaining the historical and theoretical foundations of Erlang and the BEAM. Links:

• http://learnyousomeerlang.com
• http://tinyurl.com/mw-erlang
• http://worrydream.com/TheFutureOfProgramming

You can also see John give this talk at Midwest.io in 2014.

Hope to see you next month on December 6, 2016! We’re looking for another speaker—let me know if you’re interested.