Hello Kitto: A Dash of Data Processing in Elixir

@davejlong Hello Kitto A Dash of Data Processing in Elixir

@davejlong Hello Kitto Who Am I ▸ @davejlong on Twitter
▸ Director of Dev, Cage Data ▸ Co-Founder of DevOps CT ▸ Core contributor on Kitto ▸ Husband of 1; Father of 2 ▸ Missionary to Uganda ▸ Blogger at davejlong.com THIS GUY’S COOL I SHOULD TALK TO HIM

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@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is Kitto ▸ Heavily inspired by
Shopify's Dashing ▸ Jobs generate data ▸ Widgets display data “Kitto is a framework to help you create dashboards, written in Elixir / React.”

@davejlong Hello Kitto History Of Kitto ▸ Started by Dimitrios
Zorbas (zorbash) ▸ First commit on April 26, 2016 ▸ 0.1.0 released on October 21, 2016 ▸ Currently on 0.5.1 ▸ 11 contributors ▸ 20 forks ▸ 481 stars

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@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is A Job? ▸ Adds data
to event stream ▸ Server-side events ▸ Written in Elixir (or shell command) ▸ Can get data from anywhere ▸ Pull data from remote APIs ▸ Talk to physical things (Arduino) ▸ Interact with database

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is A Widget? ▸ Display for
data from jobs ▸ Written in React ▸ Styled in SCSS

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@davejlong Hello Kitto

@davejlong Demo Time

@davejlong Hello Kitto Command Line Interface ▸ Run a server
with webpack based asset bundling ▸ Generate new pieces to the dashboard ▸ Dashboards ▸ Jobs ▸ Widgets

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@davejlong Hello Kitto Package Management ▸ Written by Jan Stevens
(janstevens) ▸ Install widgets and jobs from GitHub Gists ▸ Public list on wiki

@davejlong Another Demo

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Else Is There ▸ Rotating through
dashboards ▸ Streaming data through jobs ▸ Live code-reloading on dev ▸ Webhooks*

@davejlong Hello Kitto Why Elixir ▸ Functional programming is wonderful
for data manipulation ▸ OTP makes error handling easier ▸ Ruby struggles with concurrency and asynchrony ▸ Dashing was dead

@davejlong Hello Kitto OTP In Kitto ▸ Code is a
state ▸ Data is a state ▸ 3 Supervisors ▸ 4 GenServers ▸ Every job is a child

@davejlong Hello Kitto FP for Data Manipulation ▸ Pipe-driven development
makes code concise ▸ Flow makes manipulating streams more manageable

@davejlong Hello Kitto How Can You Help ▸ Help work
through our 1.0 requirements ▸ Triage and ﬁx bugs ▸ Write jobs and widgets ▸ Use Kitto

@davejlong Hello Kitto ▸ github.com/kittoframework/kitto ▸ gitter.im/kittoframework/Lobby ▸ cageit.us/kitto-roadmap

Hello Kitto: A Dash of Data Processing in Elixir

Hello Kitto: A Dash of Data Processing in Elixir

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@davejlong Hello Kitto A Dash of Data Processing in Elixir

@davejlong Hello Kitto Who Am I ▸ @davejlong on Twitter

@davejlong

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is Kitto ▸ Heavily inspired by

@davejlong Hello Kitto History Of Kitto ▸ Started by Dimitrios

@davejlong

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is A Job? ▸ Adds data

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Is A Widget? ▸ Display for

@davejlong

@davejlong Hello Kitto

@davejlong Demo Time

@davejlong Hello Kitto Command Line Interface ▸ Run a server

@davejlong

@davejlong Hello Kitto Package Management ▸ Written by Jan Stevens

@davejlong Another Demo

@davejlong Hello Kitto What Else Is There ▸ Rotating through

@davejlong Hello Kitto Why Elixir ▸ Functional programming is wonderful

@davejlong Hello Kitto OTP In Kitto ▸ Code is a

@davejlong Hello Kitto FP for Data Manipulation ▸ Pipe-driven development

@davejlong Hello Kitto How Can You Help ▸ Help work

@davejlong Hello Kitto ▸ github.com/kittoframework/kitto ▸ gitter.im/kittoframework/Lobby ▸ cageit.us/kitto-roadmap