Workshop: OTP, the Middleware for Concurrent Distributed Scalable Architectures

While Erlang is a powerful programming language used to build distributed, fault tolerant systems with requirements of high availability, these complex systems require middleware in the form of reusable libraries, release, debugging and maintenance tools together with design principles and patterns used to style your concurrency model and your architecture.

In this tutorial, Robert will introduce the building blocks that form OTP, the defacto middleware that ships with the Erlang and Elixir distributions. He will cover OTP’s design principles, describing how they provide software engineering guidelines that enable developers to structure systems in a scalable and fault tolerant way, without the need to reinvent the wheel.

Tutorial objectives: To learn the Erlang way of thinking when architecting and developing systems.

Target audience: Developers and Architects interested in the principles which make Erlang, Elixir or other Beam based languages unique.

Level: Beginners and Intermediate

Note: We recommend you take this tutorial in conjunction with the one on thinking concurrently.