[erlang-questions] Erlang talk in Madrid (Spain) on Monday by Francesco Cesarini

[Lars-Åke Fredlund]

WHO: Francesco Cesarini
WHEN: Monday, February 2, 15:30
WHERE: Facultad de Informática, Campus de Montegancedo (Boadilla del Monte)
       Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, H-1002 (bloque 1)

WHAT: Functional Programming in Industry: Erlang for five nines

Abstract:

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and CTO of Erlang Training and 
Consulting. He has used Erlang on a daily basis for almost 15 years, 
having started his career 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 
Training and Consulting. With offices in the UK, Sweden, Poland (and 
soon the US), they 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 in his role as CTO, is currently leading the development and 
consulting teams at ETC. He is also the co-author of Practical Erlang 
Programming, a book soon to be published.

Francesco Cesarini will be presenting the concurrent soft real time 
functional programming language Erlang and its rapidly growing 
community. He will describe why Erlang programs are generally 4 - 10 
times shorter than their counterparts in Java, C and C++ achieving 
99,999% availability. The talk will also go into why Erlang, originally 
invented to handle the next generation of Telecom products, has been 
successful in a much wider range of sectors including banking and 
e-commerce.

All welcome!