Bruce Tate

Join Bruce Tate and Sophie DeBenedetto, authors of Programming Phoenix LiveView, for a fireside chat on LiveView and its impact on the future of web development. 

LiveView will change the way you develop single-page apps and increase Elixir and Phoenix adoption. It gives teams the ability to move fast while focusing brain power purely on the server-side, using the power of Elixir and Phoenix to support fault-tolerant single-page flows. 

Bruce and Sophie will talk about some of the basic building blocks that make LiveView so powerful, including discussions of how LiveView lets you build complex interactive flows without writing any JavaScript, how this differs from traditional SPA development, what it's like to test LiveView, what the Surface component library brings to the table, and how you can design a beautiful, layered UI with one simple pattern. 

This chat will be an interactive conversation not only between Sophie and Bruce, but also with you, the audience. Bring your LiveView questions so we can have a lively discussion about what LiveView brings to web development, and where it needs to go next.

Bruce Tate and Sophie DeBenedetto, co-authors of Pragmatic Bookshelf's LiveView book, discuss what's so great about LiveView and how it will change web development forever. 

LiveView will change the way you develop single-page apps. By allowing you to focus your brain power purely on the server, and use the power of Elixir and Phoenix to support fault-tolerant single-page flows, you and your team will be more productive than ever before. 

Our host, Sophie, will pose some questions for our guest, Bruce, that dig into what LiveView is and how it differs drastically from traditional SPA development frameworks, how you can leverage LiveView to solve almost any problem a typical SPA needs to address, what this means for the future of web development and where LiveView is going next. Bruce will also have a chance to ask Sophie some questions.

Join Marlus Saraiva, the creator of Surface, alongside Timmo Verlaan and Bruce Tate for a discussion about Surface, the new LiveView Component library.

Surface is a server-side rendering component library built on top of LiveView. Surface brings static type checks to LiveComponents, while providing better ergonomics and a high-degree of composability. It is a powerful tool in the LiveView developer's toolkit for designing rich, interactive UIs that are easy to build, layer, and maintain.

Bruce Tate, co-author of Programming Phoenix LiveView, will moderate a discussion between Marlus Saraiva and Timmo Verlaan. We'll talk with Marlus about the problems Surface is designed to solve, what it's been like to build the library, where Surface is going next, and more. We'll also hear from Timmo Verlaan on his experience working with Surface, when and why he reaches for Surface, and what Surface has brought to LiveView development. We also want to hear from you, the audience. So come with all of your Surface questions and join us for this lively discussion.

Join us for a chat and Q&A about the recently open-sourced Nx project, Numerical Computing and Machine Learning in Elixir and the Erlang VM.

The Dreyfus Learning Model has a scale that ranges from beginner to mastery. If mastery is a 5 and beginner is a 1, the most critical skill of a programmer is the ability to learn. This talk will be roughly 1/3 code, and 2/3 describing why learning languages has made Bruce a better programmer, by looking at code examples beyond the BEAM.

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

Learning

Science 

Languages

OBJECTIVES

• Learn how the Dreyfus learning model works, and why it's important to us
• Understand how other languages improves our ability to solve problems and learn
• Get exposure to other languages you might want to learn

If you want to be a great Elixir developer, you need to learn to build your programs in layers, the way the experts do. In this session, we will explore the advice:

Do fun things with big, loud worker bees.

This sentence, from the bestselling Elixir book Designing Elixir Systems with OTP, is a mental mnemonic that stands for Data, Functions, Tests; Boundaries, Lifecycles and Workers.

We'll talk about each of these layers in detail focusing on the role of each independent layer in a self-healing, performant Elixir program

THIS TALK IN THREE WORDS

OTP

Design

Layers

OBJECTIVES

• Understand basic tradeoffs for datatypes in Elixir
• Learn typical layers for an application design in Elixir
• Understand core OTP design principles

Startups and web developers take note. Phoenix LiveView is the revolutionary framework that allows rapid development of real-time web interactive applications without custom JavaScript. You read that right the first time, and the Elixir community is buzzing. So far, the performance numbers have been nothing short of earth-shattering.

In this session, you’ll see how it all works. We will do some live coding to show you LiveView under the hood.

Working on a new language is like being on a river. When rivers are born, all of the focus is on the watersheds, what feeds them and what will eventually give them the critical mass to succeed. As they grow, the focus changes, and we tend to think about the health of the river and where it will take us.

Come join us on the river, where we'll talk about what's happened in the Elixir community and how the language is changing the way we all program. We'll look at technologies, community and culture.

OBJECTIVES

• Reminisce with the audience about Elixir's younger years
• Understand how the dynamics of a language changes with growth
• Learn where Elixir is going and what's likely to change as we go there