I’ve always considered Erlang to be an excellent general purpose programming language. With that, the one-off projects that aren’t systems or servers always had the bloat of OTP, and never felt right. (more…)

Please check Part 1 here if you have not already. Part 2: The Payload (Python Jobs) Preparing the Data (files) Disco Distributed Filesystem (DDFS) is a great low-level component of Disco. DDFS is designed with huge data in mind, so it made more sense to ... (more…)

This is the first in a series of upcoming posts about deploying and monitoring an Erlang cluster in Kubernetes. To start, this piece describes how to build an Erlang container for the project that will be deployed to Kubernetes, and will touch on a couple... (more…)

I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory. Quick look: An Erlang list This is the in-memory layout of the Erlang … (more…)

How garbage collection in Erlang can help you to create scalable applications... (more…)