Ian Plosker
Developer Advocate, Basho Technologies
Basho Technologies
Ian Plosker is the Technical Lead, International Operations at Basho Technologies, the makers of the open source database Riak. He has been developing software professionally for 10 years and programming since childhood. Prior to working at Basho, Ihedeveloped on everything from CMS to bioinformatics platforms to corporate competitive intelligence management systems. At Basho, he's been helping customers be incredibly successful using Riak.
Favourite quote: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it." - Mark Twain
Favourite quote: "Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it." - Mark Twain
Twitter: @dstroyallmodels
Ian Plosker is Giving the Following Talks
Nifty Native Implemented Functions: low-level meets high-level code
Erlang Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) allow developers to implement functions in C (or C++) rather than Erlang. NIFs are useful for integrating high performance or legacy code in Erlang applications. The talk will cover how to implement NIFs, use cases, and common pitfalls when employing them. Further, we will discuss how and why Erlang applications, such as Riak, use NIFs.