Category Archives: TADSummit Online Conference

An introductory dive into Telecoms, with Vance Shipley

Introduction Here is the PDF for the content Vance presents. If you find an acronym, check out the abbreviations in this PDF. Slava summarizes the session best, “if I had received the kind of information years ago when I was just starting to explore the telecom world, it would have saved me hundreds of hours … Continue reading An introductory dive into Telecoms, with Vance Shipley

Real World AI-enhanced coding and product development

Thomas McCarthy-Howe, CTO Vconic, vCon Father Rob Pickering, Internet and Real Time Communication Software Expert, RJ Burnham, Founder and CEO Consig AI João Camarate, Entrepreneur, Investor, Startup Nerd, Advisor to Broadvoice Lyle Pratt, Founder CEO Vida Voice Introduction I follow the above thought leader’s Linkedin posts and our one-on-one conversations about AI and the role … Continue reading Real World AI-enhanced coding and product development

Erlang-Red Walkthrough

Introduction Gerrit will run through using Erlang-Red to create a diameter authorization flow. Topics covered will be visual state machine creation, visual unit testing and documentation of flows. Gerrit comes from a background of web development and creating software to make people’s lives better. Visual Flow Based Programming (FBP) fulfills a desire to communicate with … Continue reading Erlang-Red Walkthrough

Chat with Chris Allen CEO Red5

Chris co-founded the open source Red5 project, where he and his team of volunteers were the first to reverse engineer Adobe’s RTMP (Real-Time Messaging Protocol). With the demise of Flash based streaming he and his team modernized the platform and launched Red5 Pro in 2015 where they focus on providing a platform for real-time latency … Continue reading Chat with Chris Allen CEO Red5

Why has the US PSTN pollution remained so bad? with Alex Quilici, CEO YouMail

Background Apologies for the slight audio quality issue. I made the mistake of maxing the gain on my microphone. Its audible, though a little annoying. I’ll not do that again. We experience it everyday, incoming calls labelled ‘scam likely’, even more annoyingly voicemails left from those scams calls. For some customers, SMS is not as … Continue reading Why has the US PSTN pollution remained so bad? with Alex Quilici, CEO YouMail

Erlang RED

Gerrit Riessen, Experimentalist FlowHub Sam Machin, Principal Engineer Jambonz Viacheslav Katsuba, CEO & Founder at Scalicon. Introduction Gerrit created Erlang RED to experiment with visual Flow Based Programming (FBP) in conjunction with Erlang. FBPs message-passed concurrency is well suited to Erlang, conversely Erlangs Supervisor design pattern is well suited to FBP. Erlang RED is an experimental Erlang backend to … Continue reading Erlang RED

Vance Shipley Interview and Erlang in Telecom Use Cases

Thanks to Slava for arranging this meeting. Vance Shipley is the founder and CEO of Sigscale. Sigscale delivers signaling and distributed fault tolerant systems. They have developed their protocol stacks (SIGTRAN, TCAP, CAP, MAP, NGAP, RADIUS, EAP) in Erlang, allowing them to build microservices with very low footprint and massive scalability. The High School Drop, … Continue reading Vance Shipley Interview and Erlang in Telecom Use Cases

Interview with Freakyclown (Ethical Hacker). How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places.

In How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places, renowned ethical hacker and social engineer FC delivers a gripping and often hilarious discussion of his work: testing the limits of physical bank security by trying to “steal” money, data, and anything else he can get his hands on. In the book, he explores the secretive world … Continue reading Interview with Freakyclown (Ethical Hacker). How I Rob Banks: And Other Such Places.

vCon Progress Report

Over the summer I had a number of conversations that included vCon. This is a chance for some of the vCon team to share the latest updates. Mindmaking is really exciting for me, its building the vCon Store, its applications and dashboards; supported by some of the TADHack community. More on that later in this … Continue reading vCon Progress Report

TADSummit online Conference, Why Erlang Matters More Than Ever in 2025, Viacheslav Katsuba

Introduction to the Erlang Session Viacheslav Katsuba, is widely known in the Erlang community as “Ukrainian Erlanger”, active blogger and co-creator of the Hello Erlang podcast, and a contributor to discussions shaping the future of functional programming. He is the Founder & CEO of Scalicon, a US registered software engineering company focused on Erlang/OTP development, DevOps, … Continue reading TADSummit online Conference, Why Erlang Matters More Than Ever in 2025, Viacheslav Katsuba