ElixirConf 2016 Summary

A collection of links that cover what happened during ElixirConf 2016. Please feel free to submit a PR!

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Day 0

SimAlchemy by James Edward Gray II

• Slides:
  • Process Basics
  • GenServer and Friends
  • Supervisors
  • OTP Strategy
• Links:
  • Simulations
  • Event Sourcing

Phoenix - Getting realtime with channels

• Links:
  • Sketchpad

Taking Off with Phoenix

• Links: ...

Badge Hacking with Nerves - Justin Schneck, Frank Hunleth, Garth Hitchens, Chris Dutton, Greg Mefford

• Slides
• Links:
  • Nerves Project Website
  • Nerves on GitHub
  • Getting-Started Guide and Docs on HexDocs
  • Join us in #nerves on the Elixir-Lang Slack

Learning Elixir through TrueStory by Bruce Tate and Eric Meadows-Jönsson

• Links:
  • Workshop
  • TrueStory

Day 1

Talks

Erlang Solutions Message

• "supercharged observer" https://www.erlang-solutions.com/products/wombat-oam.html

Opening Keynote by Chris McCord

• Video
• Slides - Not uploaded yet. Submit a PR if you find it!
• Links:
  • 2m connections in Phoenix
  • Programming Phoenix book - Discount code: ElixirConfUS2016_phoenix
  • Phoenix Presence blog post
  • Nerves - Embedded Elixir
  • New folder structure for Phoenix
  • Phoenix Presence docs
  • Phoenix Presence podcast on the changelog
  • CRDTs

Abstractions: A Tale of Keys and Values by Ernie Miller

• Video
• Slides
• Links: ...

Implementing binary protocols with Elixir by Ole Michaelis

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • https://github.com/nesQuick/elixir-hpack
  • https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/compression.html
  • https://http2.github.io/http2-spec/
  • http://daniel.haxx.se/http2/
  • https://github.com/ninenines/cowlib/blob/master/src/cow_hpack.erl
  • http://elixir-lang.org/docs/stable/elixir/Bitwise.html#%3C%3C%3C/2
  • http://www.slideshare.net/peychevi/http2-and-quick-protocols-optimizing-the-web-stack
  • https://ma.ttias.be/architecting-websites-http2-era/
  • https://benramsey.com/talks/2015/05/phptek-http2/
  • https://speakerdeck.com/summerwind/2-prioritization
  • http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000545/ch12.html#HTTP2_HEADER_COMPRESSION
  • http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585
  • https://http2.golang.org/
  • https://aprescott.com/posts/spdy-colon-headers
  • https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-header-compression-12
  • http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2015/06/25/june-2015-web-server-survey.html

pg2 and You: Getting Distributed with Elixir by Eric Entin

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • pg2 docs
  • phoenix pubsub
  • RePG2
  • gen_server
  • global
  • net_kernel

The future of deployment in Elixir by Paul Schoenfelder

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Distillery
  • edeliver
  • OpenShift

Code Spelunking for Knowledge and Profit by Brian Cardarella

• Video
• Slides - Not uploaded yet. Submit a PR if you find it!
• Links:
  • Ecto
  • Phoenix.Naming
  • Compile.Phoenix
  • Kernel.pop_in/2
  • ExUnit.Case.register_attribute/3
  • elixir_rewrite
  • Kernel.SpecialForms

Giving up the Object-Oriented Ghost by Zoe Laco

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • From Imperative to Functional and Back-Monads are for Functional Languages
  • From Imperative to Functional: How to Make the Leap
  • A Practical Introduction to Functional Programming
  • Elixir Getting Started Guide
  • Destroy All Ifs
  • 16 Months of Functional Programming
  • Learn You Haskell
  • How to Switch from the Imperative Mindset
  • Functional Programming Techniques With Ruby: Part I
  • From Imperative to Functional Programming (for Absolute Beginners)
  • Transposing a Matrix: Thinking Recursively in Elixir
  • Don’t Be Scared Of Functional Programming
  • Myth of the Day: Functional Programmers Don't Use Loops
  • ElixirSchool
  • Elixir courses at Code School (coming soon)

Nerves: Connected beyond the Node by Justin Schneck

• Video
• Slides - Not uploaded yet. Submit a PR if you find it!
• Links: ...

Selling Food With Elixir by Chris Bell

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • The app Chris built for his client
  • gen_retry
  • ets
  • immortal
  • httpotion
  • httpoison

Debugging techniques in Elixir by Erich Kist

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Stuff Goes Bad: ERLANG IN ANGER

Migrating an invoicing system to Elixir/Erlang by Norberto Ortigoza

• Video
• Slides (zip)
• Links: ...

Building "learn to touch type" glove with Elixir and Arduino by Tetiana Dushenkivska

• Video
• Slides
• Gifs used in slides
• Links:
  • Typehero_project on github
  • All about Arduino
  • Conductive materials
  • Velostat
  • Serial library and Nerves_uart for hardware/software communication.

Phoenix Beyond the Browser - Realtime Applications with Phoenix and Swift by David Stump

• Video
• Slides, Demo Apps, and Code Samples
• Links:
  • All resources
  • Birdsong
  • SwiftPhoenixClient
  • RayWenderlich
  • SwiftPlaygrounds
  • phoenix_chat_example

No REST for the wicked: Building a GraphQL API by Ben Wilson

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Absinthe GraphQL

Measuring your Elixir Application by Renan Ranelli

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Zed Shaw on Statistics
  • Blog post on measuring your elixir apps
  • Other blog post on measuring elixir apps
  • Grafana
  • InfluxDB
  • collectd
  • haproxy
  • clojurescript
  • exometer
  • elixometer
  • vmstats

Edgelixir: Distributed Graph Processing in Elixir by Nathan Lapierre

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Edgelixir

Lightning Talks

• René Föhring
  • Credo
  • ElixirStatus
• Pete Gamache
  • gen_retry
  • slides
• Faheem Mughal
  • poolboy
• Rockwell Schrock
  • authy
• My Elixir App is crashing more than my Ruby App! by Luke Imhoff
  • Slides
  • RabbitMQ
• Jay Hayes
  • Ratchet
  • Phoenix Ratchet
  • slatchet
• Josh Adams
  • DailyDrip
• Casey Rosenthal
  • SimianArmy
  • Principles of Chaos
  • ChaosCommunity
• Przemyslaw Krowinski
  • game
• Fernand Galiana
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker Compose
• Aaron Renner
  • Slides (Mocks, Adapters and Microservices)
  • Mocks
  • Adapters blog post
• Gabe Klein
  • Socks

Day 2

Talk

Keynote by José Valim

• Video
• Slides
• Notes on slides
• Links:
  • GenStage announcement
  • GenStage
  • "Musketeer: all for one, one for all in data processing systems". Gog, et al. University of Cambridge, 2015.

String Theory by James Edward Gray II and Nathan Long

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained
  • Elixir and Unicode, Part 2: Working with Unicode Strings
  • Elixir and IO Lists, Part 1: Building Output Efficiently
  • Elixir and IO Lists, Part 2: IO Lists in Phoenix

Refactoring Techniques for Elixir, Ecto, and Phoenix by Gary Rennie

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Oxo GitHub Repository

Building umbrella project by Wojtek Mach

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Umbrella apps
  • Architecture: The Lost Years (RubyConf 2011)
  • Wrangling Large Rails Codebases (Rocky Mountain Ruby 2012)
  • The Art of Destroying Software (Leetspeek 2014)
  • Myth: Eric Brewer On Why Banks Are BASE Not ACID - Availability Is Revenue
  • AcmeBank source
  • ExAdmin
  • distillery

Collaborative Music with Elm and Phoenix by Josh Adams

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Colluder

Leveling Up With Ecto by Darin Wilson

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • MusicDB example
  • ecto
  • ecto docs
  • Insert_all and schemaless queries

Building Available and Partition Tolerant Systems with Phoenix Tracker by Gabi Zuniga

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • VoiceLayer
  • Dispatch Library
  • Dht Example

From Front End to Full Stack with Elixir and Phoenix by Lauren Tan

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • ember-changeset
  • Erlang the Movie II
  • The Little Elixir and OTP Guidebook
  • Elixir in Action
  • Key value data types best practices
  • Dialyxir
  • TDD with typespecs
  • Metaprogramming Elixir
  • Terraform - incrementally replace your API with Phoenix - blogpost
  • Functional programming patterns

Nerves + Phoenix Saves a Father's Sanity! by Joel Byler

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Project Github Repository
  • Project Custom Nerves System
  • Nerves Base Buildroot Config (great README for custom systems)
  • Project Custom Nerves System
  • Great advice on testing, written by José Valim

Concurrent Feature Testing with Wallaby by Chris Keathley

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Wallaby

The new calendar types in Elixir 1.3 by Lau Taarnskov

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Elixir docs for the built in Calendar module
  • Calendar library
  • Calecto

Painless Test Driven Development with Elixir and Phoenix by Kat Tornwall

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Demo App

Dialyzer: Optimistic Type Checking for Erlang and Elixir by Jason Voegele

• Video
• Slides:
  • PDF
  • Speakerdeck
• Sample Code
• Links:
  • Dialyzer
  • Dialyxir

The Joy of Connecting Elixir to the Physical World by Frank Hunleth

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • elixir_ale
  • nerves_uart

Elixir in Elixir by Jay Hayes

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Getting Started with Elixir Metaprogramming

WebRTC and Phoenix, when μ seconds aren't fast enough by Jason Stiebs

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Demo app
  • Phoenix WebRTC
  • Twilio Stun Turn
  • stun
  • WebRTC

Closing Keynote by Boyd Multerer

• Video
• Slides
• Links:
  • Cloak blog post
  • Cloak source
  • FPGA article