Not so long ago, John Hughes showed a module called Aaargh!! to the erlang-questions mailing list. How parse transforms and macros and the Erlang compiler all worked together to mess up with us. (more…)

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…)

While I was on vacation, Erlang/OTP 20 RC1 was released. As you can see in that page, these are the highlights according to the OTP team: (more…)

I’ve been writing Ruby code for years, and like me, you may reach out for familiar tools like Redis or Sidekiq to process background jobs…...

While trying to improve the performance of JSON encoding in an Erlang application last year, I came to wonder about the different representations one can use when writing data to disk or sending it over a socket, and how they map to the OS's underlying f... (more…)