Updating the underlying systems that our service depends on (including operating system, VMs, core libraries, databases, or other components) is a regular part of our systems' lifecycle. In this post, we'll discuss how we found a performance regression wh... (more…)

Natively Implemented Functions, more commonly known as NIFs, are not a new thing in Erlang. They have been around for several years, and are commonly used fo...

This post continues our adventures in the JIT, digging a bit deeper into the... (more…)

Explore techniques to debug and improve performance of Erlang/Elixir compiler... (more…)

In addition to the documentation here Erlang is described in several recent books like: (more…)