Elixir Sydney · Wednesday 22 May 2024

Elixir Sydney May

6:00 - 8:00 PM · Microsoft Reactor Sydney

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

Fast and efficient image processing in Elixir

Kip Cole

7:00

Tools for runtime validation of types

Nicholas Hammond

7:30

Highlights from Elixir Conf EU and Gig City Elixir

Josh Price

8:00

Networking

Grab a drink, stick around

8:30

Wrap up

See you next time

Your organisers

Who runs this

Josh Price

Alembic

Mike Buhot

Alembic

With thanks to

Hosts & sponsors

Tonight's venue · Microsoft Reactor Sydney

Since we last met · 20 Mar 2024

News & announcements

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

Who's hiring

Jobs

No roles on the board right now. Hiring for Elixir or the BEAM? Tell us tonight or email organisers@alembic.com.au and we'll list it and call it out at the next meetup.

Next meetup

Practical AI In Elixir

Monday 24 June 2024 · 6:00 - 8:00 PM · Microsoft Reactor Sydney

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

Fast and efficient image processing in Elixir

Kip Cole

Images influence every aspect of an application design and UX. They comprise a significant amount of the payload for many apps. This talk looks at how the combination of libvips, vix and image can be used to: Scale, resize, transform and compose images fast and efficiently, Streaming image pipelines from the front end through to external storage services, Deliver the right image size dynamically to Plug-based apps and Vectorise raster images to SVG for fun - and for efficient image placeholders.

Up next · 7:00

Tools for runtime validation of types

Nicholas Hammond · Alembic

Nicholas talks about hist experiences trying out a few tools that do runtime validation of types

Up next · 7:30

Highlights from Elixir Conf EU and Gig City Elixir

Josh Price · Alembic

Josh shares the news, announcements and best talks to watch online from Elixir Conf EU and Gig City Elixir

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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