Sessions at Polyglot 2012 about Concurrency in SFU Harbour Centre

Friday 25th May 2012

• Intro to Erlang by Spawngrid

  by Yurii Rashkovskii

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  New is well forgotten old. You may have noticed that in these days of a higher demand for concurrent, fault-tolerant applications, people talk more and more about Erlang. Some try to copy its most prominent features to other languages. Erlang has been around for about 20 years now and is a solid piece of a battlefield-proven technology.

  What's all this buzz about? Learn it first hand.

  This hands on tutorial will give you an introduction to the Erlang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, write and structure Erlang programs. We start with an insight into the theory and concepts behind sequential and concurrent Erlang, allowing you to get acquainted with the Erlang syntax and semantics. We conclude with an overview of the error handling mechanisms used to build fault tolerant systems with five nines availability.

  In order to get the most out of this tutorial, you must have a good grasp of other programming languages. This will be a hands on tutorial. Make sure you come with your laptop having installed Erlang (https://github.com/spawngrid/kerl) and your favourite editor.

  Attendees will also get a discount for a three day Erlang Express course that will follow shortly after.

  Bio

  Yurii Rashkovskii is a software enthusiast with over 10 years professional experience holding a true passion for how software is created, throughout the whole lifecycle from designing, implementing to testing, deployment and maintenance. Yurii has been using Erlang on and off since 2001 for commercial and open source projects, always returning to it from his endeavours with other platforms. Among other things, his open source Erlang work includes erlzmq2, beam.js, htoad, seqbind & exportie, proper_stdlib, evfs, socket.io-erlang, agner, epitest and EEP 39 implementation.

  He is a public speaker at international Erlang conferences (Erlang Factory & EUC), co-organizer of the Vancouver Erlang Meetup, and co-founder of Spawngrid.

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  • Concurrency
  • Erlang

  At 9:00am to 5:00pm, Friday 25th May

  In SFU Harbour Centre