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Presentation: "Idioms for Building Distributed Fault-Tolerant Applications with Elixir"

Track: Leading & Bleading Edge - Day 1 / Time: Thursday 13:20 - 14:10 / Location: Frederik

This talk will introduce developers to the Erlang VM and show how they introduce a completely new vocabulary which shapes how developers design and build distributed, fault-tolerant applications. This talk will also introduce the Elixir programming language and what it brings to the Erlang Virtual Machine.
 
Expectations
Introduce Elixir, its ecosystem and design goals within the Erlang Virtual Machine

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José Valim, Elixir

José Valim

Biography: José Valim

José Valim is the creator of the Elixir programming language and member of the Rails Core Team. He graduated in Engineering in São Paulo University, Brazil and has a Master of Science by Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is also the lead-developer of Plataformatec, a consultancy firm based in Brazil, and an active member of the Open Source community.
 
Twitter: @josevalim