The Lumen Project is an alternative implementation of the Erlang VM, more known as the BEAM. It is designed to work in WebAssembly with the specific goal of bringing Elixir and Erlang to the browser. (more…)

We recommend upgrading to the latest Safari, Google Chrome, or Firefox. (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... (more…)

A long time ago, I wrote an article about The Asymmetry of ++ in Erlang, thanks to Fede Bergero’s findings. Now, I am about to add a few more asymmetries to the list… (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.