The Elixir Workshop: 2.0
Session Description
We went through the beginner introduction last year.
This year we dive into slightly advanced concepts.
Building blocks of Elixir / Erlang / Beam's concurrency stack:
the actor model.
Process
Tasks
Agent
Genserver
Supervisors
Registry.
Application
We shall start with a few boilerplate templates that shall be completed by attendees during the course of the workshop.
Prerequisites:
A laptop preferably running a *nix based operating system.
Git, Elixir and Erlang installed on the machine.
A personal hotspot internet connection, just in case the venue's internet falters.
Familarity with Elixir's syntax.
Key Takeaways
Someone who completes the workshop shall:
understand elixir's concurrency model
cluster elixir nodes and build a distributed system.
run a small app on the local cluster.
Session Categories
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Speakers
Anuvrat Parashar
Reviews
People would require more details about the workshop. Even if the target audience is who already knows Elixir, I would request the proposer to add more details so that students and others on the edge would get interested.