Kate Rezentes on GenServers at Simplebet

Season 9 is in full swing and we are so excited to welcome Kate Rezentes today to dive into the particulars of GenServers. Kate is a Junior Software Developer at Simplebet, a B2B product development company using machine learning and real-time technology to make every moment of every sporting event a betting opportunity. Tune in today to learn more from today’s special guest, Kate Rezentes! Key Points From This Episode: A brief breakdown of today’s topic and introduction to our special guest, Kate Rezentes We learn about Kate’s background and her long history with programming We discuss how many conferences she’s attended and why ElixirConf has been her favorite (thus far) Find out how Kate landed a job while attending ElixirConf How GenServers as a subject came to be We get an inside look at Kate’s working experience at Simplebet and her experience as a Junior Engineer in the industry so far What cases in particular cause the need for a GenServer We discuss where GenServers would be appropriate to use and why The ins and outs of ‘handle calls’ and ‘callbacks’ The process of testing a GenServer and data storage_ **Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:* Kate Rezentes on Twitter — https://twitter.com/rezkate Kate Rezentes on GitHub — https://github.com/KateRezentes Kate Rezentes on LinkedIn — https://www.linkedin.com/in/kfrezent/ Simplebet — https://simplebet.io/ SmartLogic — https://smartlogic.io/ SmartLogic Twitter — https://twitter.com/smartlogic