Applications are becoming increasingly concurrent, yet the traditional way of doing this, threads and locks, is very troublesome. This article highlights Erlang and Scala, two programming languages that use a different approach to concurrency: the actor m...

This is the first in a series of upcoming posts about deploying and monitoring an Erlang cluster in Kubernetes. To start, this piece describes how to build an Erlang container for the project that will be deployed to Kubernetes, and will touch on a couple... (more…)

We talked to Martin (https://www.sauspiel.de/schafkopf-lernen fame) to learn about a famous Bavarian card game. (more…)

Please check Part 1 here if you have not already. Part 2: The Payload (Python Jobs) Preparing the Data (files) Disco Distributed Filesystem (DDFS) is a great low-level component of Disco. DDFS is designed with huge data in mind, so it made more sense to ... (more…)

Erlang is famous for its introspecting powers. You can get a lot of information about the processes running in your nodes without any external tool. Let's see one of the functions that provide that information… (more…)