Ling is a reincarnation of Erlang VM and, as such, it must exhibit behaviour sufficiently similar to its widely used ancestor, BEAM. An extensive testing has been conducted to demonstrate the similarity. The results of the testing are summarized in the ta... (more…)

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

Last year I was invited to ElixirConf Latin America in Colombia to give a talk, I proposed to also give a tutorial about Riak Core and they said that it should be in Elixir, so I started looking into (more…)

Erlang/OTP 20.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a few (characteristics) improvements, as well as a few incompatibilities. (more…)

The design decisions that make the Erlang VM reliable also give it great concurrent performance... (more…)