This story (like the last one) was also inspired by the curiosity of my students at Cali, Colombia. The question, this time, is: When and why does the bang (!) operator fail?

Explore techniques to debug and improve performance of Erlang/Elixir compiler... (more…)

gruff - A basic worker pool manager for Erlang to showcase gen_pnet. (more…)

Not all systems, especially web applications, need to be upgraded without being taken out of service. But at ikura, we need it. We do ‘relups’ all the time: we don’t take our service down whenever updates are pushed live.

Some are quotes from the founders of the languages or the actor-model PLT, while otherss are from various commandos of the language. (more…)