EMPEX LA 2018
who it's for
Elixir developers, backend developers, software engineers, site reliability engineers, engineering managers, documentation writers
topics
error handling patterns in Elixir; Elixir streams usage; building resilient systems; Hex package manager advanced usage; Ecto.Schema without Repo; deployment strategies for Elixir; migrating to replacement architecture; process-oriented simulations (ant foraging); inclusion through documentation; Elixir adoption lessons
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Keynote: Embracing an Error-Prone Reality | Emma Cunningham | 39m |
Second Spectrum builds optical tracking and analytics for the NBA and LA Clippers and runs full‑stack data visualizations that must stay up under load; Elixir… | ||
| Life is but a Stream | Geoffrey Lessel | 22m |
Compares Elixir’s Enum and Stream with live IE X demos and benchmarks using ranges, Integer.to_string, String.graphemes, Enum.to_list, Enum.take and… | ||
| Building Beautiful Systems with ... | Andrew Hao | 36m |
Argues that Phoenix contexts are concrete Elixir modules that group business logic and hide persistence (Ecto) and shows a hands‑on Context Mapping exercise… | ||
| Become a Hex Power User | Todd Resudek | 24m |
Explains how Hex actually behaves: shows mix hex info to inspect releases and build/version metadata, mix hex search and mix hex docs to find and open package… | ||
| Panel: Elixir Adoption | Shanti Chellaram, Brandon Richey | 19m |
Legacy PHP stack migrates to Elixir with a concrete proof: an autosuggest prototype built in Phoenix that routes real traffic and is ramped traffic to 100%… | ||
| Panel: Deployment | Desmond Bowe, Benjamin Brodie, Scott Taylor | 33m |
Uses distillery and edeliver for releases, sometimes building artifacts inside Docker to target the right OS; CI runs full integration tests by launching the… | ||
| Ecto.Schema without Ecto.Repo | Rosemary Ledesma | 15m |
Claims that Ecto.Schema without Ecto.Repo works as a standalone data layer for microservices, using embedded_schema and cast_embed to parse JSON and RabbitMQ… | ||
| Shipping a Replacement Architecture in Elixir | Chris Bell | 47m |
A company replaces a Rails monolith with Elixir and Phoenix in about eight months with a three‑person core team, migrates from DynamoDB to Postgres (largest… | ||
| A Swarm of Processes — Simulating Ant Foraging Behavior... | Will Ockelmann -Wagner | 23m |
Simulation claims a full foraging colony using a separate OTP process per ant, with per-ant GenServer actors, a DynamicSupervisor + Registry via tuple naming… | ||
| Inclusion Starts with Docs | Pete Gamache | 35m |
Great documentation increases inclusion by making projects usable and contributable; the claim here is that Elixir’s built-in tools make that low friction. The… | ||
| Closing Keynote | Sarah Gray | 45m |
A career story of deliberate relearning and tooling: launches include seven projects in five months and about ten prototypes for a campaign, a product pushed… | ||
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