A PropEr Conference

This year's Erlang Factory London was a great success, with delegates attending from over 18 countries! Speakers included Robert Virding and Mike Williams, inventors of Erlang, Kostis Sagonas, the leader of the HIPE Team at Uppsala University, Marcus Kern, CTO at MIG, Steve Vinoski, distributed systems expert and Scott Lystig Fritchie, senior software engineer at Basho Technologies with many more in attendance.

The keynotes came from, Mike Williams, one of the inventors of Erlang and Kostis Sagonas, Leader of the HiPE team and Erlang tool developer at Uppsala University and the National Technical University of Athens. Mike gave an interesting talk on "Why Erlang was invented and a few things you don't want to tell your manager about Erlang." On day two of the conference, Kostis gave a "PropEr Talk" which looked at PropEr, an open-source, tool for property-based testing in Erlang.

Record Numbers!!

This year’s Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2011 reached record delegate numbers with over 170 in attendance! The conference gave everyone a fantastic chance to listen to some great talks, network and socialise with some of the best programmers around. This year's conference saw an additional 10 talks on last year and boasted the best programme we have ever put together.

2 days of exciting talks and 3 days of expert training took place from 21st - 25th March 2011 at the Hilton San Francisco Airport Hotel. Like in previous years the conference was aimed at Erlang enthusiasts from architects to newbies.

Speakers included Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding– the inventors of Erlang, Damien Katz – the creator of CouchDB, keynote talks from Kostis Sagonas - Leader of the HiPE team at Uppsala University and inventor of Dialyzer and Dan Ingalls - The principal architect of five generations of Smalltalk environment, with many more Erlang experts from the US, Europe and the rest of the world.

This year's Erlang University, ran from 21st to 23rd of March and was taught by O'Reilly author Simon Thompson and Erlang Co-Inventor, Robert Virding. Two exciting additions were 3-day courses on Erlang and Test Driven Development, and XMPP with Erlang and EjabberD. Erlang and TDD was aimed at testers and developers who know Erlang but want to learn the art of TDD. It was taught by Learn You Some Erlang's very own Fred Trottier-Hébert. XMPP with Erlang and EjabberD was taught by XMPP Programming author and expert Jack Moffit.

Thank you to everyone for making this years conference not only a great success but also a pleasure to attend and organise.

Erlang Factory Lite – For a second year running the event proves to be a huge success.

The meeting was devoted to Erlang and its potential. It began with presentations on Erlang usage in popular commercial products. The event kicked off with a talk from Co-inventor of Erlang, Robert Virding, who discussed Erlang rationale and the history of Erlang.

For those of you who are not familiar with Erlang yet, here you can find information about the language in Polish and here in English.

The audience had the opportunity to learn about Erlang and how it deals with the biggest challenges of coming years: 

• Conquering embedded devices with Erlang
• Integrating XMPP based communicator with large scale portal
• The benefits of Riak
• How a large scale business uses Erlang

SOLD OUT!

This year's Erlang User Conference was the biggest so far, with over 300 delegates gathering from around the globe. The conference saw an increase of over 70 delegates on last year, proof that the Erlang community is growing.

Delegates had the opportunity to meet the fathers of Erlang, ask them questions and listen to 15 brilliant talks, which have been recorded and will soon be available on our website. For those of you who would like to view the presentation slides from the speakers, click here. For a flavour of the event, take a look at the twitter feed #euc2010. Who knew a conference could be so much fun!

On Monday 15th November 2010 there was a series of tutorials held at the Ericsson Conference Centre. They started at 9am and ran till 6pm.

They allowed delegates to optimise their visit to Stockholm by taking in this event in conjunction with the EUC 2010 on Tuesday 16th November 2010 which was held at the Old Astoria Cinema in Nybrogatan again.

Speakers and talks were varied with many different options to choose from. Places were  limited and registration was very popular. You can view the slides from the tutorials here.

The first Erlang Factory Lite LA was a great success with over 40 delegates in attendance.

It was held on Sunday 7th November 2010 and was organised by Erlang Solutions and The Bitsource. The Factory Lite gave delegates the chance to network with their fellow programmers, find out what’s new in the Erlang community and listen to some of the worlds leading speakers on Erlang. Speakers included; Ulf Wiger, CTO of Erlang Solutions, Kresten Krab Thorup, Chief Architext and Co-founder of EOS Trifork and Robert Virding, one of the creators of Erlang and stars of Erlang The Movie.

With a growing Erlang community in the LA area, we hope to make this event a regular occurrence and build on it year after year.

The Factory Lite was sponsored by MySpace and hosted in their Beverly Hills premises, the event was be free to attend and ran from 11am - 4pm.

The Erlang Lite meeting aims to bring people together and share thoughts and ideas while growing the community within the LA area and give you the chance to present and share with the community.

With the chance to see some of the leading speakers in their field the Erlang Factory Lite LA was an event not to be missed by Erlang enthusiasts and programmers of all languages.

The largest London Erlang Factory to-date ended on 11th June. Over 135 delegates and speakers, from as far away as Argentina, Mexico, the US, Israel and South Africa, were treated to talks from across the Erlang spectrum. There was an Erlounge held on the first evening where a series of lightening talks were followed by a traditional Erlang evening of beer and networking.

Again, the format of six tracks allowed a broad focus for delegates to select talks aligned to their specific interests. The Keynote talks this year  - from Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding on Day 1 and Martin Odersky on Day 2 - were very well received and it was a privilege to have these speakers with us.

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The Erlang Factory SFBay Area was a resounding success with 34 speakers delivering talks in three tracks to an audience of over 120!  The event was held at the San Francisco Airport Hilton and proved to be the largest Erlang event in the US so far, overtaking last year's despite the continuing effects of the downturn in the marketplace.

There were delegates and speakers from Argentina, Brazil, Israel, Japan, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, France, and Italy as well as from all parts of the US. This resulted in a very stimulating environment where Erlang was discussed and user's experiences compared.

As part of this, an Erlounge was held on the evening of the first day at a nearby Yacht Club and featured a number of 10-minute talks by delegates as well as the usual drinks and buffet. Delegates and speakers were able to mix and get into deep discussions in a very convivial environment.

The Erlang Factory team wish to thanks everyone who attended in San Francisco for making this event so memorable, and we look forward to seeing you all again next year! Or even again this year in London!

Erlang Factory Lite – the first Erlang day in Krakow was a great success!

The meeting was devoted to Erlang and its potential. It began with presentations on Erlang usage in popular commercial products, but the main part of the meeting was the lecture of our special guest, Ulf Wiger –  Uber Erlang programmer and CTO of Erlang Training and Consulting Ltd, soon Erlang Solutions Ltd.

For those of you who are not familiar with Erlang yet, here you can find information about the language in Polish and here in English.

The audience had the opportunity to learn about Erlang and how it deals with the biggest challenges of coming years: 

• multicore processors, clouds and parallel computations
• distributed databases and scalable systems
• reliabilty and soft-real time systems
• integration with other technologies

• develop software engineering approaches to improve reliability of service-oriented networks
• support fault-finding and diagnosis based on specified properties of the system
• build automated tools that will generate and run tests, monitor execution at run-time, and log events for analysis.

This year's Erlang User Conference was a very successful gathering with delegates from as far afield as the USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Over 250 delegates were in attendance, up from 140 in 2008! 

The Erlang User Conference has brought together Erlangers from around Europe and worldwide and in that way has highlighted strengthening interest in Erlang, not only in its 'birthplace' .

Delegates had the opportunity to meet the fathers of Erlang, ask them questions and listen to 14 brilliant talks, which have been recorded and will soon be available on our website. For those of you who would like to view the presentation slides from the speakers, these are now available here. For a flavour of the event, take a look at the twitter feed #EUC.

Erlang is a concurrent, distributed functional programming language aimed at systems with requirements on massive concurrency, soft real time response, fault tolerance, and high availability. It has been available as open source for several years creating a community that actively contributes to its already existing rich set of libraries and applications. Originally created for telecom applications, its usage has spread to other domains including e-commerce, banking, and computer telephony.

Erlang programs are today among the largest applications written in any functional programming language. These applications offer new opportunities to evaluate functional programming and functional programming methods on a very large scale and suggest new problems for the research community to solve.

The London Erlang Factory retained its place as the biggest gathering of Erlang talent in 2009, surpassing even the Palo Alto Factory! With more than 40 speakers and a series of 10-minute talks at the Erlounge, the London Factory brought together Erlangers from five continents. The Erlang Universities also proved popular and allowed delegates to combine their training with the conference for a great value-adding experience.

The presentation slides and videos of the talks can be found on the Speakers and Talks pages for those delegates who could not decide on which talk to attend and for those who could not make it in person.

Almost 120 delegates and speakers attended what was the largest gathering of Erlang Expertise ever in the US and the second largest in the world after last year's Erlang Exchange in London.

A total of 35 talks were delivered by 38 speakers and track hosts  in the two days. Each day had three separate tracks and the main complaint from delegates was the difficulty in deciding which of the tracks to attend.

Videos of most of the talks and the presentations will be available at Speakers in the next few days, for those who could not attend, or delegates who were faced with a difficult choice. Just click on the Speaker and view the video or download/view the presentation.

The Erlang Factory moves to London in the last week of June 2009. If you missed it in Palo Alto - come and experience the Speakers, training courses and networking in London!