Our readers will understand it was inevitable for us to be interested in Juan Facorro's project, ClojErl. And of course, we interviewed him about it. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. (more…)

Agner Krarup Erlang (1 January 1878 – 3 February 1929) was a Danish mathematician, statistician and engineer, who invented the fields of traffic engineering[1] and queueing theory.[2] ... (more…)

Erlang/OTP deployments that want to provide shell access or cluster nodes relied on something called the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon (EPMD), a separate process th... (more…)

We love Rails, but we believe that Ruby is the wrong choice of platform on which to build a simple, fast, reliable website. The alternatives aren't much better: the JVM, V8, Python, and Perl all eventually run into the problem of dog-slow server-side temp... (more…)

The presence of source code that is no longer needed is a handicap to project maintainability. The larger and longer-lived the project, the higher the chances of accumulating dead code in its different forms. Manually detecting unused code is time-consu... (more…)