Latest Elixir news on the radar, issue 71
GenStage, interview with José Valim, Nerves, IO lists and Phoenix+Elm
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Issue 71
Oct 27, 2016

Reactive Tweets with Elixir GenStage
almightycouch.org

Mario Flach talks about GenStage, its back-pressure mechanism and his own producer on top of Twitter's streaming API. He also covers integration with Hackney and GenStage's Flow.

Focusing on José Valim: A Biographical Interview
austinerlang.org

Anthony Esposito interviewed with José Valim, the creator of Elixir, for almost 2 hours in order to quantify the tenets of successful programming from Valim's perspective.

Building and Using a Custom Nerves System
wsmoak.net

Wendy Smoak explains how to customize existing Nerves Systems in order to build custom firmware in Nerves. Steps complete with a reference repository.

Elixir and IO Lists: Building Output Efficiently
www.bignerdranch.com

Nathan Long describes the power behind Elixir IO lists and how his research led to a contribution back to Erlang/OTP.

Creating a Chatroom Using Phoenix, Elm, and Websockets
www.jeremybellows.com

Jeremy Bellows shares a two parts tutorial on building a chatroom with Phoenix on the server side, Elm on the client side, talking over Websockets.

Changelog.com is Open Source
changelog.com

The folks at Changelog open-sourced their new site and CMS, showcasing their full stack Phoenix application with Turbolinks and webpack.

Jobs
JOB Backend Engineer (Phoenix)
Heresy - London, UK

Join us as our first backend engineer and help us complete the first version of our flagship product. You will have the opportunity to work on interesting problems, take ownership of the development process and be part of the journey of growing the company.

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 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.

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Events
CONFERENCE Mexico City Erlang Factory Lite 2016

Saturday, October 29, 2016 - Mexico City, Mexico

MEETUP Indianapolis­, IN
GenStage and the Erlang worldview

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

MEETUP Stockholm, Sweden
The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook book club

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

MEETUP Houston, TX
Strings & Binaries plus OTP overview

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

MEETUP Denver, CO
Distributed Nerves 'Hello World'

Monday, November 7, 2016

MEETUP Washington, DC
Phoenix for Rails Developers

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

WORKSHOP Jacksonville­, FL
Elixir/OTP Workshop (Intro to concurrent programming)

Thursday, November 10, 2016

MEETUP München, Germany

Thursday, November 10, 2016

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

Tuesday, November 15 - Berkeley, CA

MEETUP Portland, ME
Elixir Processes and Concurrency

Thursday, November 17, 2016

CONFERENCE Berlin Erlang Factory Lite 2016
Conference and Courses

Thursday, November 24, 2016 - Berlin, Germany

MEETUP Hamburg, Germany
Credo and Elixir Weekly special

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

CONFERENCE ElixirLive Conference

December 3-4, 2016 - Warsaw, Poland

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2016 - Berkeley, CA

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

Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - Berkeley, CA

CONFERENCE Lonestar ElixirConf 2017
CFP is open. Submission deadline is November 27, 2016.

February 10-11, 2017 - Austin, TX

CONFERENCE BOB Conference 2017
Submit a proposal for a talk or tutorial. Deadline: Oct 30, 2016.

Friday, February 24, 2017 - Berlin, Germany

CONFERENCE Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2017
Conference: 23-24 March; Tutorials: 25 march; Training: 20-22 March and 27-30 March

March 23-24, 2017 - San Francisco, CA

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