July 10, 2023

Understanding Networking on the BEAM with Elixir

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Understanding Networking on the BEAM with Elixir

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BEAM Concurrency Phoenix Framework Phoenix LiveView

Andrea Leopardi showcases that the architecture of BEAM, with lightweight processes and message-passing system, is incredibly well-tuned for network programming, providing an intuitive and powerful approach to handle networking protocols like TCP. The talk reveals that BEAM's processes work concurrently, like people performing tasks simultaneously, without shared memory, which mimics real-world connections. He explains how this process isolation benefits network applications by containing failures and ensuring efficient memory management. Leopardi touches on the importance of handling TCP connections, considering aspects like connection persistence, ordering of messages, and the unique challenges of reconnections for TCP clients. The discussion includes strategies like acceptor pools for scalability, supervision trees for fault tolerance, and backoff mechanisms for efficient reconnection attempts. Andrea also suggests GenServer and GenStateMachine for building robust client processes and strategies for managing client connections, including pooling and handling disconnections. The talk encourages understanding the underlying network principles to improve our use of tools in the Elixir ecosystem, such as Phoenix, LiveView, and channels.

Exploring Machine Learning in Elixir with a Recommendation Engine

Andrew Forward discusses the potential for using Elixir to build a recommendation engine for a gifting platform. He explores traditional machine learning algorithms such as KNearestNeighbour, (Naive) Bayes, and KMeans, and introduces the Elixir library 'scholar' for implementing these algorithms.

Jul 10, 2023

Exploring the Trustworthiness and Resilience of Distributed Systems

Heidi Howard, a senior researcher at the Azure Research Group at Microsoft, examines the reliability and availability of distributed systems. The talk highlights essential academic research that has shaped the design of resilient distributed systems and looks at emerging technologies that might overcome current limitations.

Jul 10, 2023

Understanding Elixir Debugging Tools Based on Erlang Fundamentals

Lorena Mireles discusses Elixir's powerful debugging tools, which leverage Erlang's capabilities to manage complex systems and streamline troubleshooting processes.

Jul 10, 2023