EMx 004: Blockchain in Elixir with Kamil Lelonek
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English - May 22, 2018 11:24 - 45 minutes - 44.3 MBHow To Education Business Careers programming javascript web framework development front end developer programmer internet node Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Panel:
Mark Erikson
Eric Berry
Justin Bean
Special Guests: Kamil Lelonek
In this episode of Elixir Mix, the panel talks to Kamil Lelonek about Blockchain in Elixir. Kamil is a software engineer from Poland who does full stack development with Elixir and JavaScript. He is also an educated dietician and is interested in topics such as biohacking, Bitcoin, and Blockchain. They talk about how he got into Elixir, how he decided to start implementing Blockchain in Elixir, and Bitcoin.
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
Kamil intro
Elixir and JavaScript
How did you come to Elixir?
Between Clojure and Elixir originally
Some experience with functional programming
Experience with Java, Ruby, and Scala
Wanted to use a functional language
Full-time Elixir developer now
How hard was it to transition to Elixir?
Syntax of Elixir is similar to Ruby
How long did it take you to go from an operational mindset to a functional mindset?
Coding in a non-idiomatic way
How did you get into Bitcoin and Blockchain with Elixir?
Start everything from scratch
Document journey through blog posts
Haven’t had any problems so far with implementation
Why Elixir is a good technology to implement Blockchain with
Started off simple
Leverage OTP in future
Leveraging wit pattern matching and binary matching
Blog posts to come
Mastering Bitcoin
Bitstring parsing
And much, much more!
Links:
Elixir
JavaScript
Clojure
Bitcoin
Blockchain
Ruby
Scala
Blockchain blog posts
Mastering Bitcoin
Kamil’s Blog
kamil.lelonek.me
Kamil’s GitHub
@KamilLelonek
Picks:
Mark
Eric
Justin
Kamil