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EMPEX
An Elixir Movement.
One-day conferences for curious programmers.
Happening in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
presents
One-day conferences for curious programmers.
Happening in New York City and Los Angeles, California.
A sophisticated conference for functional programmers held in New York City. We present a single track of technical talks in a jazz club.
More InformationFebruary 8, 2020
An event focused on realtime application development centered around the Elixir programming language. For designers, engineers, and product managers interested in the next generation of realtime software.
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EMPEX has been running for 5 years.
In that time, we've heard some amazing talks! Here they are in all their glory.
In this talk, we'll see a simulation of a foraging ant colony that can efficiently solve mazes, built using a separate OTP process for each ant. Along the way we'll look at GenServers, dynamic Super...
This panel will discuss strategies for increasing Elixir adoption in your organization, and then take questions.
We all use Hex every day on our Elixir projects, but how many of us really know everything Hex can do and how it works? Taking a deep dive into the Hex internals will show you some tips and tricks y...
If you want to be a great Elixir developers, you need to learn to build your programs in layers, the way the experts do. In this session, we will explore the advice: Do Fun Things with Big, Loud Wo...
Phoenix contexts are a powerful code organization tool - but without a clear idea of what business domains live under the hood of your systems, naively creating contexts leads to over-engineered, fr...
Scale is a very popular topic among software engineers, and it is something many of us strive to do well, but we rarely discuss its consequences. We think of scale as an inherently good thing. After...
MIDI is a specification developed in the 80s to allow musical instruments to talk to each other in near real-time. This inter-instrument talk involved sending notes, changing syntesizer patches, and...
Are you a parent of children, pets, or just really immature roommates? Do you wish you could use Elixir to help solve household issues and annoyances? Do you frequently over-engineer side projects? ...
This panel will discuss their elixir deployment strategies, and then take questions.
With newer versions of Ecto you can use Ecto.Schema without even importing Ecto.Repo or setting up a traditional database. Why would you wish to? Your microservice or other lightweight app may not...
Elixir is a programming language that has become dear to me as it has become my go-to choice for most of the things at work and personal projects. One thing that people notice when getting started w...
Having an Elixir application deployed it's crucial to have good insight into your architecture for multiple reasons. High level of observability helps you scale, improve your system's performance, o...
The Erlang and Elixir embedded software and hardware platform GRiSP is out over 3 years now and now covers Elixir and Erlang with mix and rebar3 tooling and is looking at further places where Erlang...
In 2016, Magazine X asked Position Development to expand their existing Haskell app. Instead of only serving ecommerce forms via iframes in their WordPress website, their Haskell app would serve eve...
Writing code that touches the real world is a magical experience. Nerves makes the software more approachable and much more powerful. Come see five fun projects that you can build from beginning to ...
The Erlang and Elixir embedded software and hardware platform GRiSP is out over 3 years now and now covers Elixir and Erlang with mix and rebar3 tooling and is looking at further places where Erlang...
As software engineers we often are looking for the best tool for the job. Yet what about when languages appear similar? What then? In this talk we will compare Go and Elixir. These languages have s...
Nulls are a fact of life—sometimes a value can be absent, which is important information to have However if a variable can be null, we often have to write extra code to handle that possibility. How ...
Writing efficient data structures in Erlang isn't something that's normally done - but by borrowing from both Purely Functional Data Structures, some additional work on Finger Trees, and occasionall...
Great documentation is the single most powerful tool for increasing inclusion in a project. Docs can level the playing field between beginners and experts, providing everyone a better understanding ...
As a community we have gone to incredible lengths to avoid ever writing or even looking at Erlang syntax. This has lead to a fractured community, unnecessary dependencies, and opaque code. Even wors...
For many of us recent Elixir converts, our initial attraction to Elixir was rooted in the promise of access to the BEAM concurrency model. While this has been possible in Elixir from day one, Flow ...
A overview and dive into the Stream module. When should you use it over Enum? What are the pros and cons of using Stream for your day-to-day tasks? How are some of the functions implemented? We'll g...
This talk will describe tools, application best practices, and team collaboration tips that make consuming and working with an Elixir API easier for those not familiar with Elixir. I will talk about...
The problem with a paper airplane, is that it always seems to turn one way or the other. I can never get them to maintain a steady course. What if Nerves was riding along as the pilot? We'll first ...
The need for fast and clear real-time responses are not new to user experience and application development. Instant feedback and system status are core to building better interactive interfaces. Now...
Architecting a highly concurrent distributed system in the BEAM ecosystem is not an easy thing to do even on a perfect world of homogeneous traffic, reliable, secure and low latency networks. But re...
Scenic is a powerful new library that empowers us to build our own user interfaces from scratch that work outside of the browser. Let’s put it to the test in building our very own video game. We’ll ...
Real time space battle multiplayer browser games are cool. But what if we want to play a real time space battle multiplayer game where the players are hundreds of millions of miles apart, and the sp...
You're a Test-Driven Development disciple, but you're a little iffy on this whole metaprogramming thing and it's something you don't feel comfortable using in your day to day programming. If you've...
This talk will be a deep dive of how we spent the last 4 months replacing our Rails API and various Node.JS microservices with a single Elixir Umbrella Application. We’ve gone from no Elixir in prod...
“Smart” and connected vehicles generate TONS of data. To make use of that data from a fleet of vehicles for analysis of V2V interactions, traffic patterns, or control flow, you have to consume as mu...
Elixir, Apache Kafka, and Microservices have all exploded in popularity in the last few years. While their popularities have all exploded, clear understanding of their interplay has not. In this tal...
A look at how Amnesia's Elixir wrapper over Erlang's Mnesia distributed DBMS can be used to keep your application state in a scalable resilient manner. We will start by looking at Agents and GenServ...
Yes, Elixir’s great, it’s based on Erlang, making it fault tolerant and scalable. But a few months with it day-to day, am I still singing its praises?
