EMx 082: Beam Extreme! with Miriam Pena

In this episode of Elixir Mix the panel interviews Miriam Pena, founder of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation. Miriam shares a little about her background and how she got into Erlang and Elixir. Miriam gave a talk at Elixir Conf about the OTP 22 release and she shares some of the exciting new features in this release.  Persistent terms are the first feature Miriam shares with the panel. After explaining what it is Miriam shares examples of the best use cases for this tool. The panel discusses the benefits of this module and how it is faster than ets tables. Next, the discuss the benefits and use cases of counters.  The panel shares what they got out of her Elixir Conf talk. It helped them relieve that the Erlang ecosystem is still alive and contributing. The encourage Elixir users to keep an eye out on OTP releases and stay on top of the tools and features that the Erlang team works so hard to provide for them.  Miriam shares a little about the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation, its goals and how they got started. She explains how listeners can get involved and what their contributions would be doing. Panelists

• Mark Ericksen
• Eric Oestrich
• Josh Adams

Guest

• Miriam Pena

Sponsors

• Sentry– use the code “devchat” for two months free on Sentry’s small plan
• CacheFly

Links

• ElixirConf 2019 -- Beam Extreme: Don't Do This At Home - Miriam Pena 
• http://erlang.org/doc/man/persistent_term.html 
• http://erlang.org/doc/man/counters.html 
• http://erlang.org/doc/man/atomics.html 
• https://erlef.org/ 
• https://members.erlef.org/join-us 
• https://erlef.org/stipends/ 
• https://erlef.org/news/eef/newsletter-4 
• https://twitter.com/miriampena
• https://www.facebook.com/Elixir-Mix 
• https://twitter.com/elixir_mix

Picks Mark Ericksen:

• William Shakespeare's Star Wars Trilogy 
• Utah Elixir Meetup: 2019-11 Code Poll on Elixir in Docker 

Eric Oestrich:

• https://www.lonestarelixir.com/
• https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sf/ 

Miriam Pena:

• http://blog.erlang.org/persistent_term/ 
• Code Beam SF

Josh Adams:

• Guitars

Special Guest: Miriam Pena.

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