Show Notes

In this episode we discuss what Erlang is, where it came and what you might use it for today, with Zach Kessin.

Contacting Zach Kessin 

Website: http://get-finch.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/zkessin
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zacharykessin/
Github: https://github.com/zkessin

Courses being run by Zach:

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May 9th 2017 - JavaScript Testing Course - Mocha and JSVerify: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-elixir-course-tickets-32878769284?aff=cynical

June 12th 2017 - Intro to Elixir Course: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/intro-to-elixir-course-tickets-32878769284?aff=cynical

 

Unfortunately the courses have been cancelled, but Zach is still available for corporate training

 

Erlang Books

Building Web Applications with Erlang: Working with REST and Web Sockets on Yaws: http://amzn.to/2nPdwHG

Erlang and OTP in Action: http://amzn.to/2nPwzkX

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP: Implementing Robust, Fault-Tolerant Systems: http://amzn.to/2oetMVD

Introducing Erlang: Getting Started in Functional Programming: http://amzn.to/2nPkbS4

 

FREE ebooks

Fred Herbet - Erland in Anger: https://www.erlang-in-anger.com/

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Zachary Kessin

Zachary Kessin

Zachary is a developer with over 20 years of experience building applications on the web.

He started back in the days of CGI and Perl and has in the years since worked with dozens of technologies
to bring functionality to the web.

In recent years Zachary has been spending a lot of time asking the question

“Why is building applications so hard, and can we make it better?”.

He wants to understand how to get software development to scale in terms of the services that we deploy and the teams we build...

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