I saw this video about the Josephus problem yesterday and immediately I thought it might be a fun problem to solve in Erlang. First, here is the …

This week I’ll be working as an Erlang Trainer in Cali, Colombia. Thanks to our friends at LOOPA, Carlos and I will be speaking at an Erlang Meetup in their offices. It will fun and challenging!

Please check Part 1 here if you have not already. Part 2: The Payload (Python Jobs) Preparing the Data (files) Disco Distributed Filesystem (DDFS) is a great low-level component of Disco. DDFS is designed with huge data in mind, so it made more sense to ... (more…)

Erlang's creators discuss the aging language and meet a surprise helper. For anyone having trouble with the dialog, here's a complete transcript: http://www....

This story is about something perfectly documented, but still a bit surprising for newbies and experienced erlangers alike. The question is when will gen_server's Module:terminate/2 be evaluated? (more…)