Code Mesh LDN
07 - 09 Nov 2018
Code Mesh LDN, the Alternative Programming Conference, focuses on promoting useful non-mainstream technologies to the software industry. The underlying theme is "the right tool for the job", as opposed to automatically choosing the tool at hand.
Concurrency, Multicore & Parallelism
Language
Distributed Systems
The History and the Philosophy of Computer Science
Infrastructure
Thinking Concurrently
Joe Armstrong / Francesco Cesarini
Tutorial
Understanding gossip protocols
Felix Lopez
- What is and How it works?
- Interactive web simulator
- 40 Nodes, 5 Replication Factor => 3
- 160 Nodes, 3 Replication Factor => 5 Rounds
- Rounds = Log(Nodes)
Using Erlang in blockchain development
Ulf Wiger
- Concurrent by design and fault tolerant
- Just a bit of blockchain is performance critical
- Blockchain has a lot of networking
- Blockchain is an evolving technology
- Testing
- No dependency hell
- Attack-proof
Scaling Erlang cluster to 10,000 nodes
Maxim Fedorov
- Growing faster in users
- Not just a simple messenger app
- Paradigm shift
- Erlang migration
- Some architectural decisions
- Challenges
- OTP is getting better
- Still WIP
Final Thoughts
- Big and nice community to interact
- Lot of new Ideas and problems to solve
- New technologies to dig in
