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

If you look at the features listed by Kubernetes (K8s) and compare it to languages that run on the Erlang VM, such as Erlang and Elixir, the impression is that they share many keywords, such as "self-healing", "horizontal scaling", "distribution", etc. Th... (more…)

Abstract Erlang is known for its use in systems that are fault tolerant and reliable. One of the ideas at the core of the Erlang runtime system&# … (more…)

This is a quick introduction to the Elixir syntax for Erlang developers and vice-versa. It is the absolute minimum amount of knowledge you need in order to understand Elixir/Erlang code, support interoperability, read the docs, sample code, etc. (more…)

If you're looking to get a distributed Erlang cluster up and running on Kubernetes you'll need take a few things into account. This post will create a basic application and provide scripts to automate the creation and deployment of a distributed Erlang ap... (more…)