Francesco Cesarini
Founder of Erlang Solutions and co-author of Erlang Programming
Erlang Solutions Ltd.
Francesco Cesarini is the founder and Technical Director of Erlang Solutions. He has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years,
starting as an intern at Ericsson’s computer science laboratory, the
birthplace of Erlang. He moved on to Ericsson’s Erlang training and
consulting arm working on the first release of OTP, applying it to
turnkey solutions and flagship telecom applications. In 1999, soon
after Erlang was released as open source, he founded Erlang Solutions, who have become the world leaders in Erlang based
consulting, contracting, training and systems development. Francesco
has worked in major Erlang based projects both within and outside
Ericsson, and as Technical Director, is currently leading the development and
consulting teams at Erlang Solutions. He is also the co-author of Practical Erlang
Programming, a book published by O’Reilly.
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Francesco Cesarini is Giving the Following Talks
An introduction to Erlang from behind the trenches
Erlang is a programming language designed for the Internet Age, although it pre-dates the Web. It is a language designed for multi-core computers, although it pre-dates them too. It is a "beacon language", to quote Haskell guru Simon Peyton-Jones, in that it more clearly than any other language demonstrates the benefits of concurrency-oriented programming. In this talk, I will introduce Erlang from behind the trenches. By introducing the major language constructs, describe their benefits and discuss the problems Erlang is ideal to solve. I will be doing so from a personal prospective, with anecdotes from my time as an intern at the Ericsson computer science lab at a time when the language was being heavily influenced and later when working on the OTP R1 release.