Not all systems, especially web applications, need to be upgraded without being taken out of service. But at ikura, we need it. We do ‘relups’ all the time: we don’t take our service down whenever updates are pushed live.

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…...

Over the last few weeks I’ve been working on ErlangPL as my Google Summer of Code project. The part of the project I’ve been working on aimed at analysing the performance of the ETS (Erlang Term… (more…)

Erlang is often referred to as the “concurrency oriented programming language”. How did it get this... (more…)

Using binary pattern matching for working with network protocols... (more…)