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Elixir: a potion for building scalable, fault-tolerant systems

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Abstract/Description

While microservices offer a way to easily compose and scale systems they pose some challenges.

Designing our systems functionally with simple data structures and composable functions can help.  Elixir is rapidly emerging as a language and ecosystem to build systems in this way.

We will explore Elixir and show how it can be used to build highly scalable, performant fault-tolerant systems. I will demo a running example of an Elixir application that brings the main concepts together.

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deliver:Agile 2018
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