While trying to improve the performance of JSON encoding in an Erlang application last year, I came to wonder about the different representations one can use when writing data to disk or sending it over a socket, and how they map to the OS's underlying f... (more…)

This is an implementation of Conway’s Game of Life written in Erlang, a general-purpose, concurrent, functional programming language. A lot of this essay will be an attempt to document not just the novel syntax but the different problem-solving and archit... (more…)

kerl - Easy building and installing of Erlang/OTP instances... (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…)

We talked to Martin (https://www.sauspiel.de/schafkopf-lernen fame) to learn about a famous Bavarian card game. (more…)