Simon St.Laurent is a content manager at LinkedIn Learning, focusing primarily on frontend web technologies. His interest in the server side, and experience chairing the Open Source Convention (OSCON) made him think that Erlang approaches would be the future on the server. He’s authored or coauthored books including Introducing Elixir, Introducing Erlang, Learning Rails 3, XML Pocket Reference, 3rd Edition, XML: A Primer, and Cookies.