Functional Geekery Episode 138 - Aleksander Lisiecki

Functional Geekery

In this episode I talk with Aleksander Lisiecki. We talk his introduction to Erlang, non-standard use cases for Erlang and Elixir, Erlang and Elixir School, and more.

Our Guest, Aleksander Lisiecki.

@AlekLisiecki on Twitter
aleklisi on Github
Aleksander’s Email at Erlang Solutions

Announcements

ElixirConf EU is taking place the 9th and 10th of June, with training running the 6th-8th. For more information and to get your tickets visit https://www.elixirconf.eu/.

:clojureD is taking place June 11th in Berlin, Germany. Visit https://clojured.de/ for more information and to submit your proposal.

Lambda Days 2022 has been moved to the 28th and 29th of July in Krakow, Poland. Visit lambdadays.org to keep up to date.

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Topics [@2:44]

About Aleksander
Lambda Days
Erlang
Elixir
Haskell
Software background coming into University
Java
C++
Taking a class on Ada and Erlang
Piotr Matyasik
Ariane 5
Getting an Internship in Erlang
Erlang Solutions
School of Erlang
Michal Slaski
Peer Stritzinger
GRiSP boards
Aleksander’s School of Erlang repos on Github

• Fall of 2020
• Fall of 2019
• April 2022

Things appealing about Erlang
Tooling for inspecting and observing the system
Kubernetes
Erlang Application
Concurrency and Parallelism in Erlang
Common Roadblocks to Understanding Erlang and Elixir
Prolog like syntax
Tooling
Rebar3
Gradualizer
Gradient
Processes in the BEAM
Spawnfest
Aleksander’s post on Spawnfest
Neo4j
Other interesting projects in Erlang and Elixir Aleksander has done
The Sound of Erlang
Undertone
Duncan McGreggor’s presentation on Undertone
Raspberry Pi Zero W
Building a coal stove refill monitor application
Firebase
Murphy’s Law
Aleksander’s upcoming talk at Lambda Days
Lambda Days 2022
Joanna Wrona
Slightly non-standard use cases for Erlang
Web Scraping
Monte Carlo Simulations
ElixirConf EU 2022

As always, a giant Thank You goes to David Belcher for the logo design.