Learn Erlang From its Inventors - Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding
Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding will be teaching Basic Erlang, Basic OTP and Applied Erlang Techniques at Code BEAM SF in San Francisco, between 12-14 March and 19-21 March.
This is an opportunity to learn Erlang from the people who created the language.
Joe and Robert wrote the original compiler, libraries and run-time system and held the first every Erlang courses. These course were first held internally at Ericsson, but have now spread all over the world.
Why Should You Learn Erlang?
Erlang might not be the most widely used programming language in the world but it is widely used for high performance messaging applications. It's particular strengths lie in the ease with which we can write software that is fault-tolerant, scalable and deployable in a distributed network.
Erlang was designed in-house at Ericsson for the demanding requirements of real-time telephony control programs - it has been in industrial use for over 20 years - controlling systems which run round-the-clock and in principle are never unavailable. Erlang has advanced facilities for detecting and recovering from errors and for dynamically changing the code while it is running so as not to disturb ongoing user sessions.
Erlang will happily run millions of parallel processes on a modern multi-core, which is why it is widely used by companies like Goldman Sachs, WhatsApp, IBM, Ericsson, Mailchimp, Pinterest, Klarna, AdRoll, Bet365 and Moz. The WhatsApps server was created by no more than a dozen programmers who were new to Erlang.
Detailed Info:
- BASIC ERLANG (12-14 March) - Joe Armstrong
- APPLIED ERLANG TECHNIQUES (12-14 March) - Robert Virding
- BASIC OTP (19-21 March) - Robert Virding