The Elixir Workshop: 2.0

We went through the beginner introduction last year.

This year we dive into slightly advanced concepts.

Building blocks of Elixir / Erlang / Beam's concurrency stack:

the actor model.

Process

Tasks

Agent

Genserver

Supervisors

Registry.

Application

We shall start with a few boilerplate templates that shall be completed by attendees during the course of the workshop.

Prerequisites:

A laptop preferably running a *nix based operating system.

Git, Elixir and Erlang installed on the machine.

A personal hotspot internet connection, just in case the venue's internet falters.

Familarity with Elixir's syntax.

Someone who completes the workshop shall:

understand elixir's concurrency model

cluster elixir nodes and build a distributed system.

run a small app on the local cluster.