In the case of ‘simple_one_for_one’ whereby each state-machine process, or generic server process is coming and going with some frequency, it’s often the case that I want to initialize the services, then let it take care of sorting this and that for it to... (more…)
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Abstract Erlang is known for its use in systems that are fault tolerant and reliable. One of the ideas at the core of the Erlang runtime system&# … (more…)
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When one is coming from Erlang, and sees an artificial neural network diagram/topology, one cannot help but see the 1-to-1 mapping between the Erlang concurrency model, and neural networks; it’s almost eerie. (more…)
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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.
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This PR introduces BeamAsm, a JIT compiler for the Erlang VM.
Implementation
BeamAsm provides load-time conversion of Erlang beam instructions into native code on x86-64. This allows the loader to ... (more…)
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