Join us in cooperation with the Toronto Elixir Meetup group. You can attend their hybrid event online or in person through their meetup group, or get the online link by joining here. And don't miss our in person event with Francesco on Friday, March 20 (details coming soon).

The functional paradigm has been influencing mainstream languages for decades, making developers more efficient whilst helping reduce maintenance costs. As we are faced with a programming model that needs to scale on multi-core architectures and distributed environments, concurrency becomes critical. In these concurrency models, immutability, a key feature of functional programming paradigm will become even more evident. To quote Simon Peyton Jones, future concurrent languages will be functional; they might not be called functional, but the features will be. At this meetup, we will be discussing why!

Francesco Cesarini is the founder and technical director of Erlang Solutions Ltd, the professional services company focused on the Erlang ecosystem. He started his career with the inventors of Erlang at Ericsson's computer science laboratory. From there, having worked on the first release of OTP, he has architected, programmed and supported turnkey Erlang based solutions all over the world, from Telecoms, Messaging and Payment Switches to Blockchain. He co-authored 'Erlang Programming' and 'Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP' both published by O'Reilly and lectures at Oxford University. More recently, he became co-host of the BEAM There, Done That podcast.