28 August 2011: Erlang Factory Lite - Edinburgh

Erlang Solutions - - August 15, 2011

Running along side this years Turing Festival will be an Erlang Factory Lite on the 28 August, at 1pm that will feature talks from some of the leading Erlang programmers including one of the inventors of Erlang, Robert Virding. The Factory Lite will be a chance for you to learn, socialise and network with some fantastic names including Francesco Cesarini, co-author of Erlang Programming.

The Erlang Factory Lite is open to everybody with any level of Erlang experience from newbies to experienced developers.

Why not come along and meet up with like minded developers and architects or alternatively come along and find out how more firms are using Erlang/OTP to solve previously intractable problems. The event is totally free but does require registration. You can find out more information on the Erlang Factory website.

Confirmed speakers already include:

Robert Virding – Erlang Solutions
Robert Virding works for Erlang Solutions Ltd as a Principal Language Expert.  While at Ericsson AB, Robert was one of the co-inventors of the Erlang programming language. As one of the original members of the Ericsson Computer Science Lab, he took part in the original system design and contributed much of the original libraries, as well as to the current compiler. While at the lab he also did a lot of work on the implementation of logic and functional languages and on garbage collection. He has also worked as an entrepreneur and was one of the co-founders of one of the first Erlang start-ups (Bluetail). Robert also worked a number of years at the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) Modelling and Simulations Group. He co-authored the first book (Prentice-Hall) on Erlang, and is regularly invited to teach and present at conferences and universities worldwide.

Dale Harvey – Couchbase
Dale Harvey is an Engineer at Couchbase and a long time enthusiast of   Erlang, Javascript, Open Source and the Open Web. Dale previously   cofounded the online spreadsheet company Hypernumbers before moving to   Couchbase where he now focuses on Couchbase core + Couchbase Mobile.  Dale’s interest in computing started over 15 years ago; he enjoys   working with cutting edge technology and knowing the ins and outs of the   web, however his passion is solving problemsand delivering solutions to end users. Dale lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, and can be found speaking and participating in the local developer community.

Abstract
Mobile Couchbase, The database that talks sync.
Users today want their data to be current wherever they are, at work, home or on the go.  The challenge is writing applications that work as well offline as they do in the cloud. What if there was a database that was dedicated to solving the problems of syncing data? CouchDB was built by Damien Katz in 2005 with “master to master replication” at its heart,  and has since been widely used as the go to database to solve the challenges of data synchronization. When Canonical needed a solution to keep all Ubuntu One users data in sync, they used CouchDB. Couchbase is building on the power of CouchDB’s replication to create Mobile Couchbase, a database that keeps your data in sync and with you wherever you go. In this talk I will explain how Mobile Couchbase works as a document database including its replication and conflict resolution features, and how it can be used it to add sync to your application.

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