DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF THE ERLANG AND ELIXIR ECOSYSTEM

Join the only North American conference to cover all of the BEAM languages, including Erlang and Elixir.

Created for developers, by developers, Code BEAM SF is dedicated to bringing the best minds in the Erlang and Elixir communities together to SHARE. LEARN. INSPIRE. over two days.

Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more!

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DISCOVER THE FUTURE OF THE ERLANG ECOSYSTEM

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Code BEAM SF

Code BEAM SF is the only conference in North America to bring all the languages that run on the BEAM together, including Erlang and Elixir.

Learn from 50+ cutting-edge talks and our in-depth training program, how BEAM languages are revolutionising areas like IoT, Blockchain, Fintech, Security, Machine Learning and more.

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Old ideas made new /// Brooklyn Zelenka

#Code BEAM SF 2020

Designing change /// Avdi Grimm and Jessica Kerr

#Code BEAM SF 2020

BEAM on the edge - Innovation through problem solving /// Robert Virding and Frank Hunleth

#Code BEAM SF 2020

Macros in Elixir: Responsible code generation /// Lizzie Paquette

BEAM and Kubernetes: Better together? /// Cory O'Daniel

Bring on the worker bees (Designing Elixir systems with OTP) /// Bruce Tate

Diffing Hex packages /// Johanna Larsson

Elixir ecosystem/Elixir core team updates /// Michal Muskala

#Code BEAM SF 2020

Erlang is getting pretty! /// Michal Muskala

Rustling up predictive sporting betting models on the BEAM /// David Lucia

It's time to embrace Erlang /// Todd Resudek

#Code BEAM SF 2018

Off BEAM: Secure software development /// Bram Verburg

Updates from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation working groups /// Peer Stritzinger , Bryan Naegele , Todd Resudek , Maxim Fedorov , Frank Hunleth , Bram Verburg and Johnny Winn

#Code BEAM SF 2020

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THEMES

THE BEAM

Learn from the leading experts and Erlang committers about new language constructs, VM implementations, and powerful libraries which form the Erlang eco-system. You will learn how many of its features work and how to best use them to write fast and efficient code.

FRAMEWORKS

In the frameworks track, you will learn from the leading experts and committers about new and leading frameworks such as Phoenix, MongooseIM, Nerves and RabbitMQ. You will find out how these frameworks work, how to best use them and where not to use them.

SCALABILITY AND RELIABILITY

Scaling has been a given for many years now and the BEAM supervision concepts are well understood. But you need more, much more. You want to build distributed clusters of massive potential, you want to monitor your systems and automatically provision replacement hardware in case of failures. What is best-practice? What are the big players doing? How do you ensure you don't have to wake in the middle of the night?

WEB AND APIS

With recent innovations the BEAM is now suitable for rapid web application development and gives any of the established frameworks a run for their money. Much work has been done to integrate with cloud providers such as Google and Amazon, and containerisation such as Docker and Kubernetes. The BEAM of 2019 can control your infrastructure, write Google documents, and is ideal for integrating with 3rd party services such as machine learning, and payment providers.

TOOLS

It's not always clear what off-the-shelf software is useful in production-quality systems. In the tools track, you will learn what existing production systems' maintainers are using to monitor and test their systems via war stories and experience reports of novice and expert users.

INTRODUCTION TO ERLANG AND ELIXIR

New to Erlang and/or Elixir? Interested, but don't know quite where to dig in? We've all been there! In this track, you will learn from other's experience, get a sense of the lay of the software ecosystem, get help from the community and contribute back for everyone's benefit.

CASE STUDIES

Every new domain that Erlang and Elixir push into brings a new class of problems and a new class of solutions. In this track, we'll learn from other's experience, where things have been peachy and where they haven't been so much. We'll all walk away with a more clear idea of how to build highly reliable software.

LEARN

We offer intimate, in-depth, three-day TRAINING courses for classes of up to 10 students, as well as larger workshop-style, one-day TUTORIALS that provide hands-on learning experiences. Get certified, book a CERTIFICATION EXAM.

OTP for the seasoned Erlanger

Training/

Robert Virding

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02-04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

OTP behaviours: Behind the scenes

Training/

Manuel Rubio

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02-04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

Introductory Phoenix LiveView: web development without JavaScript

Tutorial/

Bruce Tate

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04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

The BEAM VM under the hood

Tutorial/

Dmytro Lytovchenko

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04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

Clueful Elixir with Kubernetes

Tutorial/

Bryan Hunt

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04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

Tour the embedded BEAM with GRiSP and Nerves

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Peer Stritzinger,
Frank Hunleth

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04 Mar 2020
09:00 - 17:00

OTP CERTIFICATION

Training/

CERTIFICATION

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04-06 Mar 2020
09:00 - 18:00

ERLANG CERTIFICATION

Training/

CERTIFICATION

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04-06 Mar 2020
09:00 - 18:00

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Our speakers

Brooklyn Zelenka

Programs with functions λ. Cofounder & CTO at Fission

Keynote:

Old ideas made new

Jessica Kerr

Symmathecist, in the medium of code

Keynote:

Designing change

Avdi Grimm

Author of Ruby programming books and recipient of the Ruby Hero award.

Keynote:

Designing change

Robert Virding

Co-creator of Erlang, Trainer

Keynote:

BEAM on the edge - Innovation through problem solving

Frank Hunleth

Nerves co-author

Keynote:

BEAM on the edge - Innovation through problem solving

Vanessa Lee

Senior Software Engineer at Interfolio

What are the best tools for browser testing? Click to find out

#Tools

Carl Hewitt

Founder Actor Model and Inference Robustness. Designer of first logic programming language. Emeritus professor

Tactics and strategies for scalable robust intelligent systems

#Scalability & reliability

Johanna Larsson

Contributed to Elixir core that one time

Diffing Hex packages

#Tools

Randall Thomas

Hacker. Musician. Bon Vivant

(Un)Learning Elixir

Anna Sherman

Developer and team lead at Zillion, lead organiser for include(Chatt)

Pivot! How to handle change

#Case studies

Marc Sugiyama

Experienced Erlang engineer, consultant, and trainer

Coding for global languages: Unicode, charsets, strings and binaries

#Web & APIs

Ingela Anderton Andin

Top female contributor to Erlang/OTP; SW developer in the OTP team

TLS the OTP way

#Frameworks

Péter Gömöri

BEAM Enthusiast, XProf maintainer

The Yin and Yang of mutability

#BEAM

Irina Guberman

Principal Product Architect at Xaptum

Unique resiliency of the Erlang VM, the BEAM and Erlang OTP

#BEAM

Viktória Fördős

Erlanger @ Cisco NSO core

Think in Erlang!

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Bram Verburg

Grand Prior of Software Security @ Bluecode

Off BEAM: Secure software development

#BEAM

Lizzie Paquette

Software Engineer at Brex

Macros in Elixir: Responsible code generation

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Peer Stritzinger

GRiSP Inventor, Distributed Computing in IoT and everywhere

Building a IDE, compiler and runtime for a graphical distributed data flow language in Erlang

#BEAM

Barbara Chassoul

Software engineer at Peer Stritzinger GmbH

Building a IDE, compiler and runtime for a graphical distributed data flow language in Erlang

#BEAM

Haofei Wang

Director of Engineering @ Tubi

Large scale distributed video processing with OTP

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Bruce Tate

Author, editor, founder of grox.io

Bring on the worker bees: Designing Elixir systems with OTP

#Web & APIs

From 5 to 1 and back: Ramping up by learning languages

#Frameworks

Grant Powell

Senior software engineer at SalesLoft. Co-instructor of "Building scalable real-time systems in Elixir" training course at ElixirConf 2019

Jedi vs clone troopers - a Star Wars themed comparison of the BEAM and rails concurrency models and how it affects web app scalability

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Simon Unge

Senior Developer at Zoom Communications

How Cisco is using Erlang for intent-based networking

#Case studies

Dmytro Lytovchenko

Senior developer at Erlang Solutions, refactoring terrible software to be pretty and readable

Monkey, take the wheel

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Frank Hunleth

Nerves co-author

IoT network connectivity

#Frameworks

Todd Resudek

Hex core team member, Organizer of Nerves remote meetup

It's time to embrace Erlang

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

David Lucia

Using Elixir to turn every moment of a sporting event into a betting opportunity

Rustling up predictive sporting betting models on the BEAM

#Case studies

Ludwik Bukowski

Involved in Telemetry library development and maintenance

Elixir vs Scala

#Scalability & reliability

Jamie Wright

Create of Tatsu, builder of Chronic

Building a realtime WebSocket API in Phoenix

#Web & APIs

Michal Muskala

Software engineer, speaker, trainer, open source. Erlang, Elixir, Ruby.

Erlang is getting pretty!

#Tools

Elixir ecosystem / Elixir core team updates

Markus Feyh

Battle-tested Erlang developer with experience monitoring and instrumenting stateless Erlang deployments

Instrumenting and monitoring stateless Erlang today

#Tools

Nicholas Adams

Director of global support operations at T.I Tokyo

Riak KV 3.0: worth the wait?

#Frameworks

James Aimonetti

Lead developer at 2600Hz

KAZOO the VOIP cloud platform: a retrospective

#Frameworks

Robert Carbone

Visualizing the BEAM will Change the World

Your Erlang graph fix

#Tools

Beau Heubach

Pixel Pushing User Advocate

GeoRacer: Building a real-time multiplayer mobile game in Elixir in 6 weeks

#Case studies

Zack Kayser

Elixir Evangelist Everywhere

GeoRacer: Building a real-time multiplayer mobile game in Elixir in 6 weeks

#Case studies

Bryan Hunt

Open source contributor, solutions architect at Erlang solutions

Customer retention and how to avoid double billing

#Scalability & reliability

Peter Dimitrov

FP enthusiast; key contributor to the Erlang implementation of TLS 1.3

Duncan Sparrell

Cyber security expert at sFractal Consulting

Making IoT safer with BEAM/OTP

#Case studies

Simon Escobar Benitez

Colombian Software Engineer (Erlang Solutions)

Docker Images a la carte with Elixir and RabbitMQ

John Oxford

Dad-gineer who loves to over-complicate solutions, self-taught programmer and Elixir enthusiast

Building a solar powered weather station with Nerves

#Frameworks

Filipe Varjão

Developer at Erlang Solutions

Let the garbage crash

#BEAM

Cory O'Daniel

Creator of Bonny the Elixir-based Kubernetes Development Framework and the k8s Elixir client

BEAM and Kubernetes: Better together?

#Scalability & reliability

Thomas Césaré-Herriau

Observing Elixir microservices at Brex

Observability for Elixir microservices

#Scalability & reliability

Vamsi Chitters

Entrepreneur interested in building large scale systems

Observability for Elixir microservices

#Scalability & reliability

Peter Hastie

Long-time Bleacher Report survivor. Proud to have worked on many of the social features (authentication, graph search, direct messaging) that keeps our app improving

Levelling up at Bleacher Report: A cautionary tale

#Introduction to Erlang & Elixir

Bernardo Amorim

Built a bank using Elixir and created a Word to HTML converter in Ruby that also converted math formulas to MathML

Playing with Lambda Calculus

#Case studies

Manuel Rubio

Polyglot Developer, Writer, Manager and Trainer

PHP over Erlang: how and why?

#Tools

Schedule

Day 1 - 05 Mar 2020

Time	OK BEAMer	Gen X	BEAMenial
08.00 - 09.00	REGISTRATION
09.00 - 09.10	WELCOME
09.10 - 09.55	Brooklyn Zelenka Keynote: OK BEAMer Old ideas made new
09.55 - 10.10	Michal Muskala OK BEAMer Elixir ecosystem / Elixir core team updates
10.10 - 10.40	COFFEE BREAK
10.40 - 11.25	Manuel Rubio OK BEAMer PHP over Erlang: how and why? Beginner #Tools	Bryan Hunt Gen X Customer retention and how to avoid double billing Beginner #Scalability & reliability	Ingela Anderton Andin BEAMenial TLS the OTP way TLS-1.3 is a major upgrade of the TLS-1.2 protocol. A lot of legacy is thrown out and new mechanisms will replace old flawed ones. Most of the TLS handshake will be encrypted as opposed to earlier when most of the first handshake was in plain text and encryption started first when sending the final handshake confirmation message. TLS-1.3 also puts new requirements on TLS-1.2 to pave the way for migration. Intermediate #Frameworks
11.30 - 12.15	Carl Hewitt OK BEAMer Tactics and strategies for scalable robust intelligent systems #Scalability & reliability	Frank Hunleth Gen X IoT network connectivity Intermediate #Frameworks	Marc Sugiyama BEAMenial Coding for global languages: Unicode, charsets, strings and binaries Intermediate #Web & APIs
12.20 - 12.45	Haofei Wang OK BEAMer Large scale distributed video processing with OTP Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Nicholas Adams Gen X Riak KV 3.0: worth the wait? A look at the new Riak KV 3.0 distributed NoSQL key-value store, how it compares to its predecessors and does the 4 version jump of OTP justify it being in your data center today? Beginner #Frameworks	Filipe Varjão BEAMenial Let the garbage crash #BEAM
12.45 - 13.45	LUNCH
13.45 - 14.30	Cory O'Daniel OK BEAMer BEAM and Kubernetes: Better together? Intermediate #Scalability & reliability	David Lucia Gen X Rustling up predictive sporting betting models on the BEAM Advanced #Case studies	Johanna Larsson BEAMenial Diffing Hex packages Intermediate #Tools
14.35 - 15.20	Bram Verburg OK BEAMer Off BEAM: Secure software development Beginner #BEAM	Simon Escobar Benitez Gen X Docker Images a la carte with Elixir and RabbitMQ Let's build a distributed continuous release pipeline for external dependencies using Elixir, RabbitMQ and Docker Remote API.	Johnny Winn BEAMenial LiveView of Evolution #Frameworks
15.25 - 15.50	Bernardo Amorim OK BEAMer Playing with Lambda Calculus Intermediate #Case studies	Viktória Fördős Gen X Think in Erlang! Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Robert Carbone BEAMenial Your Erlang graph fix Beginner #Tools
15.50 - 16.20	COFFEE BREAK
16.20 - 17.05	Bruce Tate OK BEAMer Bring on the worker bees: Designing Elixir systems with OTP Beginner #Web & APIs	Jamie Wright Gen X Building a realtime WebSocket API in Phoenix Beginner #Web & APIs	Dmytro Lytovchenko BEAMenial Monkey, take the wheel Human Trust Monkey Dmytro Lytovchenko ERLANG SOLUTIONS. The talk briefly explains the Daniel Kahneman's fast and slow thinkers concept, where everyone can operate in easy-going and cheap mode, making mistakes and enjoying the distractions. The talk goes in detail how it is beneficial to accept your human nature, prone to errors, and instead trust your Erlang & Elixir language, available tools, and tests more than you would trust yourself. Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
17.10 - 17.55	Francesco Cesarini OK BEAMer Updates from the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation working groups
17.55 - 18.00	CLOSING NOTES
18.00 - 20.00	PARTY SPONSORED BY MUX

Day 2 - 06 Mar 2020

Time	OK BEAMer	Gen X	BEAMenial
09.00 - 09.05	WELCOME
09.05 - 09.50	Robert Virding and Frank Hunleth Keynote: OK BEAMer BEAM on the edge - Innovation through problem solving
09.50 - 10.05	Kenneth Lundin OK BEAMer OTP Team update #BEAM
10.05 - 10.35	COFFEE BREAK
10.35 - 11.20	Michal Muskala OK BEAMer Erlang is getting pretty! Intermediate #Tools	John Oxford Gen X Building a solar powered weather station with Nerves Beginner #Frameworks	Duncan Sparrell BEAMenial Making IoT safer with BEAM/OTP Beginner #Case studies
11.25 - 12.10	Peer Stritzinger and Barbara Chassoul OK BEAMer Building a IDE, compiler and runtime for a graphical distributed data flow language in Erlang Beginner #BEAM	James Aimonetti Gen X KAZOO the VOIP cloud platform: a retrospective "KAZOO has, over the last 10 years, grown to almost 300K lines of Erlang, plus C-node code in the FreeSWITCH and custom code in the Kamailio project. We'll talk about: - Growing the open source community - Erlang in anger - operational lessons learned - Tooling to support developers, community - Making major architectural changes - Building closed-source applications on top of an open source base" Beginner #Frameworks	Thomas Césaré-Herriau and Vamsi Chitters BEAMenial Observability for Elixir microservices Beginner #Scalability & reliability
12.15 - 12.40	Peter Hastie OK BEAMer Levelling up at Bleacher Report: A cautionary tale Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Markus Feyh Gen X Instrumenting and monitoring stateless Erlang today Intermediate #Tools	Anna Sherman BEAMenial Pivot! How to handle change Intermediate #Case studies
12.40 - 13.40	LUNCH
13.40 - 14.25	Irina Guberman OK BEAMer Unique resiliency of the Erlang VM, the BEAM and Erlang OTP Beginner #BEAM	Grant Powell Gen X Jedi vs clone troopers - a Star Wars themed comparison of the BEAM and rails concurrency models and how it affects web app scalability Beginner #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Zack Kayser and Beau Heubach BEAMenial GeoRacer: Building a real-time multiplayer mobile game in Elixir in 6 weeks Beginner #Case studies
14.30 - 15.15	Simon Unge OK BEAMer How Cisco is using Erlang for intent-based networking Intermediate #Case studies	Vanessa Lee Gen X What are the best tools for browser testing? Click to find out Beginner #Tools	Ludwik Bukowski BEAMenial Elixir vs Scala Intermediate #Scalability & reliability
15.20 - 15.45	Bruce Tate OK BEAMer From 5 to 1 and back: Ramping up by learning languages #Frameworks	Péter Gömöri Gen X The Yin and Yang of mutability Intermediate #BEAM	Todd Resudek BEAMenial It's time to embrace Erlang Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir
15.45 - 16.15	COFFEE BREAK
16.15 - 17.00	Lizzie Paquette OK BEAMer Macros in Elixir: Responsible code generation Macros in Elixir: Responsible code generation by Lizzie Paquette. Macros are a powerful feature of the Elixir language. However, with great power comes great responsibility. In this talk we’ll explore how to leverage macros to reduce boilerplate, enforce best practices, and increase performance all while keeping code maintainable, readable, and idiomatic. Intermediate #Introduction to Erlang & Elixir	Randall Thomas Gen X (Un)Learning Elixir Elixir is a well thought out language with a rapidly evolving ecosystem of libraries and tools. Few languages offer so many useful solutions across so many domains: web applications, embedded systems, distributed systems, just to name a few. However with great power can come great heaping mounds of frustration. If you're new to Elixir... or coming back after giving up the first few times... it can be tough to figure out what to do and more importantly what _not_ to do.
17.05 - 17.50	Jessica Kerr and Avdi Grimm Keynote: OK BEAMer Designing change
17.50 - 18.00	CLOSING NOTES
18.00 - 19.00	LEAVING DRINKS

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