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…)

Demo of the Erlang programming language Ericsson Migrated from my Google Video account.

Ted Nelson, who coined the term ""Hypertext"" also coined the lesser known word ""Intertwingled"" - this captures the idea that all there is is knowledge which is tangled up and linked together in a myriad of complex ways. (more…)

This story is brought to you by a random, but haunting and now lost, tweet by bodil in which she berated lovers of testing and dynamic languages by pointing out that types are a form of compile-time… (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…)