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• Twitter 
• GitHub 
• Erlang Solutions
• Books:
  • Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson 
  • Larger Cover Erlang By Example by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson
  • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implementing Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems by Francesco Cesarini and Steve Vinoski

03:08 - Erlang Programming Language

• Multicore 
  • [Stack Overflow] paralellel processing - Erlang on multicore CPU
• History
  • Ericsson 
  • Home of Erlang/OTP

08:23 - Francesco and Erlang

• Joe Armstrong
  • Blog

10:49 - Building a Company Around a Language (Erlang Solutions)

• Products:
  • MongooseIM
  • WombatOAM
  • Riak NoSQL Database 
• Events:
  • Erlang User Conference
  • Erlang Factory
  • Code Mesh
• Projects:
  • T-Mobile SMS Gateway
  • Instant Messaging Gateway (2008-2009)
  • Preemptive Support, Monitoring, Metrics & Alarming (WombatOAM)

16:00 - The Erlang Programming Language

• Avdi Grimm: In Which I Make You Hate Ruby in 7 Minutes
  • Pharo by Example
• The Concurrency Model
• Debugging
• Live Code Upgrade
  • Smalltalk
  • The Elixir Programming Language
• OTP (Open Telecom Platform)

24:25 - Error Handling Semantics

• Actors and Supervisors
• The Client-Server Behavior
• The Event Handler
• Finite State Machines

30:23 - Getting Started with Erlang

• Resources:
  • Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World by Joe Armstrong
  • Functional Programming with Erlang (Erlang MOOC)
  • Learn You Some Erlang
  • Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implementing Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems by Francesco Cesarini and Steve Vinoski
  • Erlang Programming: A Concurrent Approach to Software Development by Francesco Cesarini and Simon Thompson
• Major Hurdles to Learning Erlang:
  • Understanding Tail Recursion and Pattern Matching
  • Concurrency
  • Error Handling

34:23 - Elixir 35:28 - Erlang and Polyglot Architecture

• RabbitMQ

37:01 - WombatOAM 38:57 - Erlang Pros and Cons

• Cons:
  • Number Crunching
  • Parallelism
  • Graphics, Web Development, and Frontends
• Pros:
  • REST APIs
    • webmachine
    • cowboy

40:44 - TDD (Test-Driven Development)

• common_test
• EUnit
• QuickCheck
  • mnesia
  • Shrinking

46:10 - Languages/Technologies on the Horizon (for Francesco)

• Elixir
• Large-Scale Distributed Computing
• FlowForwarding 
  • [GitHub] FlowForwarding 

48:21 - The Erlang Community

• The Erlang Mailing List
• Erlang Central

50:24 - Writing Apps with Erlang / IoT?Picks Avdi Grimm: A Personal Programming Language Roadmap (Avdi)
Pharo (Avdi)
Avdi Grimm: In Which I Make You Hate Ruby in 7 Minutes (Avdi)
Babel-17 / Empire Star by Samuel R. Delany (Coraline)
Orson Welles (Coraline)
John Hughes: QuickCheck Evolution @ CodeMesh 2014 (Jessica)
Vehicles: Experiments in Synthetic Psychology by Valentino Braitenberg (Jessica)
Zero to One: Notes On Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel (Francesco)
CodeNewbie Podcast (Chuck)
Ask Me Another (Chuck)
Startups For the Rest of Us (Chuck)Special Guest: Francesco Cesarini.