Latest Elixir news on the radar, issue 68
Elixir Users' Survey 2016, BEAM Wisdoms, Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained, Elixir Maintainability, Using the Unicode modifier with Regex in Elixir
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Issue 68
Oct 5, 2016

Elixir Users' Survey 2016
dailydrip.typeform.com

Josh Adams is once again running the Elixir Users' Survey. If you haven't filled it yet, there is still time and it should take only a couple minutes!

BEAM Wisdoms
beam-wisdoms.clau.se

Dmytro Lytovchenko has written a fantastic series of articles about how constructs such as atoms, processes and more work on the BEAM VM.

Elixir and Unicode, Part 1: Unicode and UTF-8 Explained
www.bignerdranch.com

Nathan Long has distilled his ElixirConf talk called "String Theory" in a two-parts article about Strings, Unicode and more.

Elixir Maintainability
tech.findmypast.com

Steven Blowers walks through a series of projects such as ExDoc, Dialyzer and more that can help you increase the maintainability of your Elixir repositories.

Using the Unicode modifier with Regex in Elixir
joshbranchaud.com

Find out when to use the Unicode modifier when writing regular expressions in Elixir with Josh Branchaud.

Jobs
JOB Elixir/Phoenix developer with Ruby/Rails experience [dutch speaking]
Kabisa - Amsterdam, Netherlands, onsite

We're a consultancy company, built most of our backend stuff in Rails & Java, have also started using Elixir/Phoenix (in production). We're looking for more Elixir/Phoenix devs, preferably with Rails experience. [on-site: true, location: Amsterdam | Weert, lang: NL]

JOB Full Stack Developer
RevZilla Motorsports - Philadelphia, PA, USA

Fast growing technology-driven motorcycle parts and apparel retailer looking for engineers to work on our in-house procurement, logistics, warehouse management, point-of-sale, CRM, and ecom solutions.

JOB Back-end Software Engineer
Maxwell Health - Boston, MA (remote possible for US based workers)

Work on our new enterprise integration project. Use functional programming (Elixir and/or Scala) to design our new public REST API. Help our group learn function programming principles.

JOB Senior Developer
The Outline - New York City, US

The Outline is hiring Elixir/Phoenix developers that are passionate about news, media, and storytelling. You will help build our core product as part of a small, collaborative team of developers, designers, product managers, and editors.

JOB CTO // Senior Software Engineer
2trde - Berlin or Munich, Germany

We are looking for a CTO at 2trde in Berlin or Munich (Germany) to shape the team and technology at 2trde. We have observed that it’s a major problem to publish pre-owned cars in B2B car auction platforms. We solve this by building a meta-platform for B2B car auctions.

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Events
MEETUP Nashville, TN
Moving from Rails to Phoenix

Thursday, October 6, 2016

MEETUP Kansas City, MO
Erlang/Elixir Concurrency Model and Using Angular2 in Phoenix

Thursday, October 6, 2016

MEETUP Medellín, Colombia
Kicking Python/Ruby in the ass with Elixir. Building a Big Data pipeline with Elixir on a Cluster using GenStage and Flow.

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

MEETUP Tucson, AZ
Nerves

Wednesday, October 12, 2016

MEETUP Detroit, MI
Using Erlang With A Raspberry Pi

Thursday, October 13, 2016

MEETUP Orlando, FL
Introduction to Phoenix: an Elixir Web Framework

Thursday, October 13, 2016

MEETUP Dublin, Ireland
Rearchitecting with OTP

Thursday, October 13, 2016

MEETUP Utrecht, Netherlands
Comparative concurrency models & Distributed Disarray

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

MEETUP Portland, OR
Using Elixir to Synchronize PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

MEETUP San Diego, CA
Building your first Phoenix JSON API

Thursday, October 20, 2016

CLASS Elixir Mastery
Three intense days of training = $1,500

October 26 to 28, 2016 - Reston, VA

CONFERENCE EmpEx -- Halloween Lightning Talks 2016

Thursday, October 27 - New York City, NY

CONFERENCE Erlang Factory Lite

Saturday, October 29 - Mexico City, Mexico

MEETUP Houston, TX
Strings & Binaries plus OTP overview

Wednesday, November 2

MEETUP Washington, DC
Phoenix for Rails Developers

Wednesday, November 9

CLASS Intro to Elixir in Berkeley
FREE. Space may be limited so please RSVP.

Tuesday, November 15 - Oakland, CA

MEETUP Portland, ME
Elixir Processes and Concurrency

Thursday, November 17

CONFERENCE ElixirLive Conference

December 2, 2016 - Warsaw, Poland

CLASS Intro to Phoenix in Berkeley
FREE. Space may be limited so please RSVP.

Tuesday, December 6 - Oakland, CA

CLASS Intro to Phoenix II in Berkeley
FREE. Space may be limited so please RSVP.

Tuesday, December 13 - Oakland, CA

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