This video was recorded at Code BEAM Europe 2022 - https://codesync.global/conferences/code-beam-sto-2022/Backtracking through Time and Space in Erlang | Qu... (more…)

Erlang is probably the most widely used functional programming language in the software industry. It's been used by the creators of massive telecom infrastructure, tech giants, video game companies, and various small firms alike to achieve fast, stable ne... (more…)

I was helping debug a performance problem (this networking puzzle) in an Erlang program yesterday. I learned that Erlang is complicated, and that we can learn maybe 2 things about it by just looking at what system calls it’s running. (more…)

The vox populi is that Erlang tooling has always been lagging behind other languages’, and that when Elixir came along, it somewhat forced… (more…)

In Erlang, we are going to write a small module called ‘slug.erl’ which can handle all of this. Our home-spun routine will yield a quasi-random string of characters & with that, we can let our imagination run wild with what to do with the results.