Like many of you, Merlin loves to write code, and is a big fan of software in all its forms.
Having worked his way up from hardware design, through embedded software, to web technologies he’s seen plenty of approaches, but has chosen functional programming as his style of choice. With a strong interest in distributed systems, Elixir & BEAM became an obvious technology to focus on. At Multiverse he helps to lead software architecture initiatives, runs a team, and sometimes if he’s very lucky, gets to use a code editor.
Software Engineer is one hat he wears, and he’s also rock climber, competition skydiver, and beer brewer!
Let’s play Tetris together!
In this talk we’ll play a live game of Tetris battles together, and then have a look at how it works under the hood. We’ll take a tour through the code and show how a multi-participant browser based game or tool can be built using only Elixir and Phoenix LiveView.
The goal of this talk is to teach you something about how OTP processes and supervision works, and show some patterns for creating large interactive experiences using Phoenix.
We’ll use my game Tetrex as a case study, and I’ll aim to share some insights learned on my journey from Elixir newbie to video game copyright infringer.
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