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!

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Picks:

Mark

Eric

Justin

Kamil