Carlos Souza
Idopter Labs co-founder
Carlos Souza is the co-founder of Idopter Labs where he leads teams using Elixir. With a passion for blockchain technology, Carlos has become a prolific open-source contributor, particularly in the Cardano ecosystem. His notable projects include Xogmios, an Elixir client for Ogmios, and Xander, an Elixir network client implementation for the Cardano Ouroboros protocol.
Talk:
Engineering Network Protocol Clients
This talk explores the development of Elixir-powered tools for working with a Blockchain node. We’ll go through the journey of implementing both a WebSocket and custom binary protocol, discussing challenges encountered and how OTP’s architecture provided elegant solutions. You’ll leave with practical knowledge of how Elixir’s fault-tolerance and concurrency model can be applied to complex external system integration.
Key Takeaways:
- How to leverage Elixir’s concurrency model and OTP for building network applications. Practical implementation patterns for building WebSocket and binary protocol clients in Elixir - in particular using the gen_statem behaviour.
Target Audience:
- Intermediate Elixir developers interested in network programming techniques and learning more about state machines using gen_statem