Elixir and the Beam - a love letter from the 90s
A quick tour of of the Beam and its newest language Elixir and an investigation of how some smart choices made back in the 90s at Ericsson shaped one of the most loved and interesting development platforms of the past few years.
Peter Short, CrankWheel
CTO
Peter moved to Iceland in 2008 having started his career in Dubai building web based solutions in .Net. Peter worked for 9 years at Landsbankinn, first on the online banks and then general software architecture and practices, before moving to Meniga to lead a team working on web and personal finance managment. He has been CTO at CrankWheel since 2021 where he was been using Elixir and Erlang to build soft realtime systems for screen sharing and sales
A quick tour of of the Beam and its newest language Elixir and an investigation of how some smart choices made back in the 90s at Ericsson shaped one of the most loved and interesting development platforms of the past few years.
Peter Short, CrankWheel
CTO
Peter moved to Iceland in 2008 having started his career in Dubai building web based solutions in .Net. Peter worked for 9 years at Landsbankinn, first on the online banks and then general software architecture and practices, before moving to Meniga to lead a team working on web and personal finance managment. He has been CTO at CrankWheel since 2021 where he was been using Elixir and Erlang to build soft realtime systems for screen sharing and sales