# Nelson Vides

> Software engineer specialising in Erlang/Elixir and the BEAM — DNS, distributed
> systems, concurrency, fault tolerance, and load testing. Among other things I work
> on erldns, DNSimple's high-performance open-source DNS server. This site collects
> my conference talks, current reading, and the tools I use.

## Pages

- [Home](https://videsnelson.com/): short bio and featured talks
- [Speaking](https://videsnelson.com/speaking): conference talks with abstracts
- [Reading](https://videsnelson.com/reading): books I am reading, filterable by language, topic, and year
- [Uses](https://videsnelson.com/uses): the hardware and software I use

## Talks

- [Anatomy of a Resilient Nameserver: Concurrency, Resolution, and Protection](https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BLLW9C-anatomy-of-a-resilient-nameserver/) — FOSDEM 2026, 2026-02-01
- [Scaling, securing, and protecting DNS, in Erlang](https://codebeameurope.com/talks/scaling-securing-and-protecting-dns-in-erlang/) — CodeBEAM Europe 2025, 2025-11-06
- [Automata Unveiled: A Theoretical Exploration of State Machines](https://youtu.be/endy-GrXov4?si=Almml56fEG0QsfxZ) — Lambda Days 2024, 2024-05-27
- [A Murder of Crows: actors, instrumentation, and load-testing as part of the TDD cycle](https://youtu.be/dt1ZuaEtKnU?si=Hb4c33Y0wa4v7KGj) — DevDays Europe 2024, 2024-05-24
- [gen_statem Unveiled: A Theoretical Exploration of State Machines](https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2130-genstatem-unveiled-a-theoretical-exploration-of-state-machines/) — FOSDEM 2024, 2024-02-03
- [Reimplementing Technical Debt with State Machines](https://youtu.be/SWvv3XO6jNs?si=DvHa7_Tw1GlZoa84) — CodeBEAM Europe 2023, 2023-10-15
- [The Actor Model as a Load Testing Framework](https://youtu.be/DXd7ld80xAU?si=lU9JTeQK9rtgcUlm) — Lambda Days 2023, 2023-06-06
- [Building blocks and How to Use Them: A MongooseIM Case Study](https://youtu.be/0qcsx5vnCkk?si=YRSnIVIFVwss069m) — CodeBEAM America 2022, 2022-11-03
- [The Actor Model as a Load Testing Framework](https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/beam_actor_model_load_testing/) — FOSDEM 2022, 2022-02-05
- [SCRAM: Challenging your authentication in the BEAM](https://youtu.be/yhRq-Bwq_s8?si=PZf7o5A_2OxfUQil) — CodeBEAM America 2021, 2021-03-10

## Links

- [GitHub](https://github.com/NelsonVides)
- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nelson-vides/)

## Optional

- [Full content (talk abstracts and reading list)](https://videsnelson.com/llms-full.txt)