Want to learn how to write applications for the most flexible, scalable, and advanced telephony platform, Kazoo? This two-day, hands-on course will take you through the platform, starting with the libraries, utilities, behaviors, and patterns developed over the last three years to get you going on the right track. From there, we'll journey into the existing applications so you can see design decisions that worked, that didn't worked, and the tradeoffs to consider when you take the reigns to build your own application. 

The course will cover topics such as using the AMQP behavior, gen_listener, to consume messages off the AMQP bus; using the BigCouch utilities to query, create, and delete databases, documents, and views; basic Erlang application structure to build new Kazoo applications; and so much more!

We will have a variety of fun "toy" applications you can choose from for the final project, but if you have ideas for your own application, we encourage you to bring those ideas and see if you can get a prototype together before you leave.

Trainer: James Aimonetti

Target Audience: Developers and Ops

Prerequisites:

The focus will be on leveraging Kazoo to build applications; as such, we won't focus too heavily on teaching Erlang. Please come with some experience using Erlang, exposure to OTP principles and patterns, and preferably having used some of the more popular Erlang libraries (lager, Cowboy, poolboy, etc). General telephony/VoIP experience welcome but not required. Basic Linux sysadmin experience as well.

Objectives:

The participant will get an intro to the Kazoo code base and how to build applications, leveraging existing libraries and subsystems included in the platform.

Duration: Three days.

Registration: 8:30 on 30 March 2015.

Venue:  Marines' Memorial Club and Hotel in Union Square. 

Description: Want to learn how to write applications for the most flexible, scalable, and advanced telephony platform, Kazoo? This two-day, hands-on course will take you through the platform, starting with the libraries, utilities, behaviors, and patterns developed over the last three years to get you going on the right track. From there, we'll journey into the existing applications so you can see design decisions that worked, that didn't worked, and the tradeoffs to consider when you take the reigns to build your own application. 

The course will cover topics such as using the AMQP behavior, gen_listener, to consume messages off the AMQP bus; using the BigCouch utilities to query, create, and delete databases, documents, and views; basic Erlang application structure to build new Kazoo applications; and so much more!

We will have a variety of fun "toy" applications you can choose from for the final project, but if you have ideas for your own application, we encourage you to bring those ideas and see if you can get a prototype together before you leave.