Tech Mesh London 2012

Presentation: "From Java to Erlang Thinking"

Track: Language Track / Time: Tuesday 14:25 - 15:15 / Location: Virginia Woolf's

Designing systems in Java is very different from designing systems in Erlang. In this talk, I'll report on my journey from being an expert Java developer into the land of Erlang concurrency and systems design. As always when you travel to foreign places, you may learn more about the place you came from than you expected. Some of the new concepts I learned certainly changed the way I look at Java in ways I did not anticipate.   

Talk objectives: Report from a journey.

Target audience: Attendees who want to see the difference in thinking in the Java and Erlang ecosystems. 

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Kresten Krab Thorup, Hacker, CTO of Trifork

Kresten Krab Thorup

Biography: Kresten Krab Thorup

Dr. Kresten Krab Thorup is Chief Architext and Co-founder of EOS Trifork, a vendor of J2EE compatible application servers. Thorup received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of Aarhus; he has served on the expert group for JSR-14 (Adding Generics to Java), and is currently serving on JSR 244 (Java EE 5.0). Before joining Trifork and the EOS-group, Thorup spend three years at NeXT in San Francisco.