Iterate fast on hardware with Nerves

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Nerves uses Erlang/OTP and the BEAM plus Elixir and Buildroot to boot a read only Linux image that runs the VM as PID 1, provides AB partitions with automatic rollback, signed FWUP firmware streaming and binary deltas, and hot code updates via the IEx REPL and Livebook. Demos show mix firmware, mix burn and mix upload to Raspberry Pi targets, remote consoles and fleet updates (NervesHub / Nerves Cloud) across ~150,000 devices with staged deployments of ~30MB images and 10 concurrent updates for safer rollouts.

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1. 0:00Nerves and embedded Elixir
2. 3:55Speaker background
3. 8:32Why choose Nerves
4. 12:08Development workflow
5. 15:22Updating firmware
6. 17:38Hot code updates
7. 19:49Livebook for debugging
8. 25:07Host-based development
9. 25:49Shipping mistakes
10. 26:50Fault recovery layers
11. 28:58Firmware updates safety
12. 31:05NervesHub for fleet
13. 34:12Device authentication
14. 35:38Debugging emergencies
15. 38:46Health monitoring
16. 39:50Real-world hardware challenges
17. 41:55Nerves advantages
18. 42:16Conclusion

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