alpaca - Functional programming inspired by ML for the Erlang VM... (more…)

This post is a brief primer on BEAM, the virtual machine that executes user... (more…)

This is the first in a series of upcoming posts about deploying and monitoring an Erlang cluster in Kubernetes. To start, this piece describes how to build an Erlang container for the project that will be deployed to Kubernetes, and will touch on a couple... (more…)

I find it interesting how the Erlang BEAM engine represents data in memory. Quick look: An Erlang list This is the in-memory layout of the Erlang … (more…)

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.