EMx 003: Chris Keathley

Panel:

• Eric Berry
• Josh Adams
• Justin Bean

Special Guests: Chris Keathley In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Chris Keathley. Chris has been in the Elixir community for a number of years and has been trying to contribute more to the community recently. He created libraries such as Wallaby and has been working on distributed systems tooling more recently. They talk about his various projects that he is working on, such as Raft, Toniq, and Maestro, and much more! In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

• Chris intro
• Elixir
• Wallaby
• What are you doing with distributed systems now?
• Raft and Raft for Elixir
• People like to attack problems with consistent solutions
• Global process registries
• What are AP Semantics?
• What are CP Semantics?
• Available systems
• Eventual consistency
• Clustering inside of VPN
• Encapsulating state
• Warehouse kiosks
• The world fights against state machines
• Alternatives based on rules or events
• What projects are you working on now?
• CAP Theorum
• Toniq GitHub
• ecto_hlclock
• Event sourcing
• Stems around message ordering
• Maestro
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao
• And much, much more!

Links:

• Wallaby
• Elixir
• Raft
• Raft for Elixir
• CAP Theorem
• Toniq
• ecto_hlclock
• Maestro
• Elixir Outlaws
• The Little Elixir & OTP Guidebook by Benjamin Tan Wei Hao