Dimitris Zorbas

This year’s ElixirConf marks Elixir’s 10th birthday, in the rest of this post I’m sharing my experience of what took place this time.

I was lucky enough to attend ElixirConf.EU for the third time and in this post I’m sharing some thoughts about the talks I saw, some of my notes and insights on the future of this community in general. Location I’d never visited Prague before and the conf was an amazing opportunity to combine business and pleasure. While writing this post though, a week after, I realised I didn’t visit most of the landmarks that I was planning to. … Read more

I attended ElixirConf.EU 2018, it took place in Warsaw this time. The food was fantastic, the weather was very favourable and the presentations a blast. The Food Announcement: This blog is from now on about food ..Not. That zapiecek place was sooo good though. We ate there almost twice a day. They had those ravioli-like pasta called pierogi, absolutely mouth-watering. I might visit Poland again just for the food! </food> … Read more

I returned from vacations in beautiful Greece (Amorgos island 🏝), to attend Elixir.LDN-2017 in London. General Feeling The venue was at a very convenient location and was well suited for the conference. I could see many familiar faces and felt like a supercharged edition of the London Elixir meetup. If you’re interested in attending the Elixir London meetups you probably want to join #london of the elixir-lang slack (get an invite) and the meetup. … Read more

I was in beautiful Barcelona for ElixirConf.EU 2017. In this post I’m sharing some of my notes and impressions about it. Team Quiqup [Zorbas, Hawkins, Rabe] Tutorials I attended the tutorial “Microservices under the Umbrella” by Makis Otman & Georgina McFadyen, both working for 8th Light. We hacked on code from the following repositories: https://github.com/Maikon/elixir_setup https://github.com/Maikon/pharos The was goal to create an umbrella application, going through the pros and cons of such an architecture. … Read more