Elixir Sydney · Wednesday 5 July 2017

API Gateways 🚪💂, Requirements Makeovers 💅 and Phoenix 🔥🐔

6:00 - 8:30pm · Pivotal Labs

Est. 2015 · Sydney, NSW · Beginners welcome · Press → or space

Welcome

Welcome to Elixir Sydney

▸ New to Elixir or the BEAM? You're in exactly the right place.

▸ Be kind and inclusive, we run under a Code of Conduct (elixir.sydney/code-of-conduct).

▸ Bathrooms and fire exits, ask any organiser if you're unsure.

▸ We take a few photos on the night, tell an organiser if you'd rather not be in them.

▸ RSVP and follow future meetups on Luma.

▸ Want to speak? First-time speakers are very welcome, grab us tonight or hit elixir.sydney/speak.

Tonight

Agenda

5:30

Doors open

Pizza, drinks & networking

6:00

Kick-off

Welcome & housekeeping

News & announcements

What's new across the ecosystem

6:30

An Introduction to API Gateways

Richard Heycock

7:00

🔥🐔 1.2 ~> 🔥🐔 1.3

Jon Rowe

7:30

Requirements Makeover

Robin Hilliard

8:00

Networking

Grab a drink, stick around

8:30

Wrap up

See you next time

Your organisers

Who runs this

Josh Price

Alembic

James Sadler

Alembic

Paul Fioravanti

Alembic

With thanks to

Hosts & sponsors

Tonight's venue · Pivotal Labs

Since we last met · 07 Jun 2017

News & announcements

Nothing major to report since last time, straight into the talks.

Who's hiring

Jobs

Software Engineer (Backend / Elixir)

Yojee · Sydney CBD (4 days in office)

Build enterprise-grade logistics software with Elixir/Phoenix — distributed, event-driven systems powering real-time freight operations across air, ocean, and road. We're looking for engineers with 4–6 years of backend experience across PostgreSQL, AWS, Docker, CI/CD, and modern AI-assisted development workflows.

Engineering Manager

Yojee · Sydney CBD (4 days in office)

Lead high-performing engineering teams building enterprise-grade logistics software with Elixir/Phoenix and React. Own delivery, grow engineers, and stay hands-on while shaping distributed, event-driven systems powering real-time freight operations across air, ocean, and road. Experience leading teams, building production systems at scale, and leveraging modern AI-assisted development workflows across the SDLC required.

Next meetup

💃🏻 Elixir Girls Celebration

Wednesday 2 August 2017 · 6:00 - 8:30pm · Pivotal Labs

We need speakers.

Talks, lightning talks, half-formed ideas, first-timers especially welcome. Come grab an organiser tonight, or pitch one online.

Submit a talk → elixir.sydney/speak

Up next · 6:30

An Introduction to API Gateways

Richard Heycock

"API Gateways are a way of managing multiple resources and can be used to provide concerns such as authentication, request throttling, bot detection and all manner of things. This edifying and entertaining talk, given my one of the most inspiring and charismatic speakers of modern times, gives a brief introduction to this fascinating subject: what an API gateway really is, how you might use one, when you probably should use one and when you probably shouldn't. It'll be a roller coaster of a ride."

Up next · 7:00

🔥🐔 1.2 ~> 🔥🐔 1.3

Jon Rowe · Crafted Code

Jon will take you through the steps for upgrading a Phoenix app and let us know what to watch out for!

Up next · 7:30

Requirements Makeover

Robin Hilliard · RocketBoots

Robin will walk you through the process of converting a shopping list of random motherhood statements, acronyms and hopefully vague statements into useable requirements. Using thinly disguised real world examples, Robin will show you how to recognise common types of problem and describe the things developers will need to know to solve them.

That's a wrap

Thank you

Thanks for coming. Stick around for a chat, and we're always after speakers, first-timers included.

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