Elixir Sydney · Wednesday 1 November 2017

🌎 Real World Elixir 2: Hot Deploys, Tracking and Tools

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

Elixir Tooling: The Good and the Bad

Luke Swithenbank

7:00

Session Tracking with GenServers

Martin Stannard

7:30

Hot Deploying with Distillery and Docker

Jeffrey Chan

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 · 02 Oct 2017

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

End of Year Trivia Night

Wednesday 6 December 2017 · 6:00 - 8:00 PM · 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

Elixir Tooling: The Good and the Bad

Luke Swithenbank · Slate Technologies

Luke will cover the myriad of amazing tools at our disposal in the Elixir and Erlang ecosystem. We personally can't wait for the new code formatter to arrive in Elixir 1.6, but he'll also cover Dialyzer and Dialyxir for type checking your code. Credo for checking and ensuring consistent code style, HiPE, iEx and more. He'll also look at what opportunities there are for improvement in tooling and what you can do about it!

Up next · 7:00

Session Tracking with GenServers

Martin Stannard

Martin will deep dive into how Blake Education uses GenServers to track and analyse the interactions of high volumes of users on Reading Eggs and other products. We've looked at GenServers before and we know that they are used for managing state in your Elixir applications, but this will be a great introduction into a very practical use case for them.

Up next · 7:30

Hot Deploying with Distillery and Docker

Jeffrey Chan

Jeffrey will take us through the process of taking your Elixir or Phoenix application and deploying it with Distillery and maybe even a little bit of Docker. He'll also cover hot deployments which are some of the best kept secrets of the BEAM!

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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