The Hitchhikers Guide to Distributing Code & Math Across Africa

In the beginning, Joe Armstrong created Erlang and it was good. There was a network. Processes could finally talk to each other, nodes could find each other. There was no WIFI. There was no Android kernel engineer dropping multicast packets. There was no Internet.

Running reliable distributed software in the Africa harkens back to the early days, except for the conspicuous lack of trusty network cables filling up the room.

Join us on our journey to distributing software in the most unlikely places to find reliable networking in the 21st century.

From distributing self-hostable software on USB sticks to debugging distributed gossip-based broadcast networks in school computer labs 10,000 miles away with the help of a trusty community of mathophiles we befriended along the way.