[svlug] ACCU meeting on Wednesday 'Developing Erlang at Yahoo'

[Walter Vannini]

When:      Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Topic:     Developing Erlang at Yahoo
Speaker:   Nick Gerakines
Time:      6:30pm doors open
      7:00pm meeting begins
Where:     Symantec
      VCAFE building
      350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
      Mountain View, CA 94043
Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard
between Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
Cost:      Free
More Info: <http://www.accu-usa.org>

Yahoo is no stranger to functional programming languages. It has had significant products in languages like Lisp and Scheme. Somehow Erlang, and other function languages, are often overlooked when most developers are researching various problems and systems. This is very unfortunate given the power and flexibility that these languages provide. At Yahoo there are places where functional languages make a phenomenal difference in the way problems and solutions are approached. This presentation will cover how Erlang, a powerful and flexible functional language, gave us exactly what we needed at a critical time and how it was approached as a production language at Yahoo.

Nick Gerakines is a software engineer and technologist in the Silicon Valley. At Yahoo he worked on the backend and infrastructure team developing next generation federated data storage systems, driving test framework development and highly concurrent Erlang application systems. Currently he works in the Mobile group at Yahoo developing native iPhone applications and exposing other Yahoo groups to ways to developing iPhone applications. He is the author of the recent book "Facebook Application Development" (John Wiley & Sons, Inc, published 2008) and is currently writing another book for the same publisher titled "Developing Erlang Web Applications" expected to release in early 2009. Nick resides in Mountain View with his wife, Carolyn, and daughter, Vanessa.

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

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