Last week I attended the Lonestar Elixir conference in Austin. I was lucky to have spent quality time with a very talented and welcoming group of people. I was also fortunate enough to meet José Valim, creator of the Elixir programming language.
With José Valim
I received training on Nerves and NervesHub, which is a framework for embedded software and IoT applications. This was particularly exciting as it brought me back to my hardware roots. I used to spend a lot of time designing hardware for Dell. During the first hour of training we were discussing SPI, I2C, GPIO, UART, hexadecimal values, and data sheets, and I immediately knew I was in the right place. These things just make me happy.
At Nerves training
Another exciting thing I learned was Phoenix Framework, which enables server-rendered HTML pages, interactive, and real-time applications. I believe this technology has the potential to disrupt many things. Also, please take a look at Phoenix LiveView and see how amazing this feature is.
Chris McCord presenting Phoenix
My interest for Elixir and the Erlang ecosystem has grown significantly. If only I can find a place to implement these at work. I guess this will be my quest in the coming weeks. I hope to make some progress in this space so that I can come back and tell you about how cool this technology is!
Until next time.
