Erlang/OTP deployments that want to provide shell access or cluster nodes relied on something called the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (EPMD), a separate process th... (more…)

Working as an Erlang mentor, there are several tiny simple lessons that I’ve delivered over and over again. The one in this article is so common that I already gave it a name: The Robot Butt Rule. (more…)

We love Rails, but we believe that Ruby is the wrong choice of platform on which to build a simple, fast, reliable website. The alternatives aren't much better: the JVM, V8, Python, and Perl all eventually run into the problem of dog-slow server-side temp... (more…)

Since its origin in telecommunications, Erlang has morphed into a powerful tool for highly-scalable, concurrent systems. Learn more about the story of Erlang and Elixir on our blog. (more…)

This is a short blurb about a specific optimization present in Erlang 20.0 which is scheduled for release in June 2017. The README file… (more…)