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…...

Concurrency. Parallelism. These terms get used a lot in development discussions, and especially in Elixir and Erlang circles. But what do they mean? (more…)

This week I’ll be working as an Erlang Trainer in Cali, Colombia. Thanks to our friends at LOOPA, Carlos and I will be speaking at an Erlang Meetup in their offices. It will fun and challenging!

Erlang/OTP 20.0 is a new major release with new features, quite a few (characteristics) improvements, as well as a few incompatibilities. (more…)

This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak. (more…)