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Hello Portland!

Let's talk Erlang, Elixir, OTP, scalability, uptime, web apps, beer and all things computer industry.

Got something to share? Looking to learn? Drop in and join us!

The next PDX Erlang and Elixir Meetup is this Wednesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at CrowdCompass.  Mexican food from Los Gorditos will be provided. Vegan and gluten free options available.  Email [email protected] if there is something specific you'd like to try from their menu (links at bottom).

There's still room on the agenda if you have something to discuss, otherwise we'll open it up for general discussion.  The agenda so far:

Stephen Peters will give a recap of his time at Erlang Factory in San Francisco earlier this month and possibly demo a new monitoring tool for the Erlang VM.

Daniel Hedlund will be giving a brief overview of erlank.mk, rebar and relx and how they fit into the Erlang app development ecosystem.  He will also present a bare bones cowboy app and go over each of its components, and how to pull in other dependencies like redis and json libraries.  The app will be made available on GitHub so you can clone and experiment after the meeting.

Hope to see everyone there!

Los Gorditos Taqueria Menus:

• Vegan: http://www.losgorditospdx.com/menu/vegan-menu/taqueria-vegan-menu/
• Vegetarian: http://www.losgorditospdx.com/menu/vegetarian-menu/taqueria-vegetarian-menu/
• Meat: http://www.losgorditospdx.com/menu/meat-menu/taqueria-meat-menu/

If you have trouble finding us, please call Stephen at 503.575.0815 or Daniel at 503.453.7535.

The next PDX Erlang and Elixir Meetup is this Wednesday from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at CrowdCompass.  

There's still room on the agenda if you have something to discuss, otherwise we'll open it up for general discussion.  The agenda so far:

Show what you're working on, point and laugh at what others are working on, or be more polite and offer constructive criticism.

Either way, join us this week and let's talk Erlang!

If you have trouble finding us, please call Stephen at 503.575.0815 or Daniel at 503.453.7535.

The next PDX Erlang and Elixir Meetup is Wednesday 6/18 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm at CrowdCompass.  

Matthew Heizenroder from Orchestrate will show us how to go from idea -> web app in no time flat using Webmachine, Heroku and Orchestrate.

Webmachine is a web framework written in Erlang - https://github.com/basho/webmachine/wiki/Overview Heroku is a cloud platform as a service - https://www.heroku.com Orchestrate provides NoSQL databases as a service - http://orchestrate.io

Looking forward to seeing you here!

• Steve

Matthew Heizenroder from Orchestrate will show us how to go from idea -> web app in no time flat using Webmachine, Heroku and Orchestrate.

Webmachine is a web framework written in Erlang - https://github.com/basho/webmachine/wiki/Overview

Heroku is a cloud platform as a service - https://www.heroku.com

Orchestrate provides NoSQL databases as a service - http://orchestrate.io

It's going to be a great meeting. Looking forward to seeing you here!

(NOTE: OSCON Birds of a Feather sessions are open to all in the community. You do not need to be registered for the conference to attend.)

As part of OSCON Francesco Cesarini will be leading an Erlang Birds of a Feather gathering at the Oregon Convention Center.

It's an opportunity to meet and greet other functional programming people and discuss how to get things done in the real world that demands highly available, fault tolerant, never-stop systems in heterogeneous environments.

Come prepared to talk and learn!

Also in attendance will be Erlang co-creator Robert Virding and other notable Erlang experts.

http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/37674

If you've heard of Erlang, perhaps you've also seen the acronym "OTP". What the heck is "OTP" and why do the Jedi refer to it as the "magic" that gives Erlang it's reputation for scalability and fault tolerance?

Why is it called Erlang/OTP? What gives? How does this relate to Elixir? What should I know about it?

Nathan Aschbacher of Visa and Elixir Games PDX has kindly agreed to join us and share his wisdom, give us an overview and also, to levitate R2D2.

Our generous hosts this month are HouseHappy.

October we followup on this deep topic with Jeff Weiss showing self-healing application magic in Elixir and OTP. Hope to see you there!

• Steve

If you've heard of Erlang, perhaps you've also seen the acronym "OTP". What the heck is "OTP" and why do the Jedi refer to it as the "magic" that gives Erlang it's reputation for scalability and fault tolerance?

Why is it called Erlang/OTP? What gives? How does this relate to Elixir? What should I know about it?

Nathan Aschbacher of Visa and Elixir Games PDX has kindly agreed to join us and share his wisdom, give us an overview and also, to levitate R2D2.

Our generous hosts this month are HouseHappy.

October we followup on this deep topic with Jeff Weiss showing self-healing application magic in Elixir and OTP. Hope to see you there!

• Steve

Jeff Wiess will share his presentation from ElixirConf EU and give us a live demo:

Chat Bot: A Practical Walkthrough of the powerful Features Elixir/Erlang/OTP

Bring your laptop and be ready to help us try and crash Jeff's chat server service.

Written in Elixir, a "Ruby-like" flavor of Erlang this demo will show supervision trees, clustering and live code updating.

Our generous hosts this month are HouseHappy.

Erlang On NixOS - Managing And Releasing Erlang Systems In The Cloud With A Fully Declarative Package Manager

In this talk we will discuss how to manage Erlang dependencies with the Nix package manager and how to use the Nix system to deliver declaratively described images containing an Erlang Release to cloud platforms.

Talk objectives:

To educate the audiance about the value of using a functional, declarative package management system to deliver functional, declarative systems.

Target audience:

Developers actively deploying Erlang systems and those interested in deploying Erlang System.

About Eric Merritt

Co-author of Erlang and OTP in Action, open source contributor, Erlang Engineer.

Jesse Cook will lead our exploration tonight.

Jesse: A beginner Alchemist who's really enjoying the functional nature of Elixir and the design of the language.

Description: Moving complexity around - What's the best way to provide a unified API in front of some of the worst APIs out there? The tools I reached for are Phoenix, Absinthe for GraphQL and a series of adapters. These adapters utilize both polymorphism and metaprogramming, but was this the right way to do it in Elixir? Let's discuss the overall architecture and the nitty gritty details.

RSVP: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2731951442299603715?source=Morgan

In pursuit of enhanced connectivity, scalability, and efficiency, cloud migration is hastening across all industry sectors. In order to unlock the cloud’s benefits, these environments – public, private, and hybrid – must be explicitly architected and engineered to suit the respective applications they will host, while also meeting security and compliance requirements.

How do businesses determine their ideal cloud environment and optimize it post-migration?

In this presentation, we will review and compare: - The physical and virtual components of public, private, and hybrid cloud environments; - The business considerations that differentiate each environment, including storage space, workloads, compliance, internal staff, and other business requirements; - The relationship between organizations, cloud providers, and MSPs; - The best practices organizations should consider keeping their cloud environment secure, compliant, and optimized post-migration.

Presenter: Scott Harvey VP of Operations & Engineering, Atmosera

RSVP: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2731951442299603715?source=Morgan