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.

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…)

In addition to the documentation here Erlang is described in several recent books like: (more…)

Этот пост есть на русском языке: http://vladimir-vg.me/erlangh-shiell-s-vizualizatsiiei/ Btw, currently I'm looking for a job, details here. Once I have spent half of my work day desperately trying to find an error in code. I was staring at logs, trying t... (more…)

I’ve always considered Erlang to be an excellent general purpose programming language. With that, the one-off projects that aren’t systems or servers always had the bloat of OTP, and never felt right. (more…)