I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory. Quick look: An Erlang list This is the in-memory layout of the Erlang … (more…)

Caramel is an Erlang backend for OCaml's type checker, offering a highly expressive, sound type-system, and a blazing fast type-checker. This allows you to rule out entire classes of errors by using types that are closer to your domain, and fearlessly ref... (more…)

TALK: A Case Study in LASP and Distribution at Scale Speaker: Christopher Meiklejohn, Ph.D. student at the Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Chris... (more…)

Since OTP is such a powerful tool for creating servers, not surprising, I’m constantly installing Erlang on new hardware & virtualware. (more…)

NIFs were introduced in Erlang/OTP R13B03 as an experimental feature. The purpose is to allow calling C-code from inside Erlang code. NIF...