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.

Last year I was invited to ElixirConf Latin America in Colombia to give a talk, I proposed to also give a tutorial about Riak Core and they said that it should be in Elixir, so I started looking into (more…)

When we write a program, we just want it to run faster when we run it on a multicore. If I have a 10 core computer I just want it to run 10 times faster, if ...

The Lumen Project is an ambitious compiler development effort to create a complimentary set of compilers and tools that allow developers to get the power of the Erlang VM, The BEAM, in places it does not traditionally fit. Such as the browser. Currently t... (more…)

Kevin believes that the best way to problem solve in code is to approach it as we approach problem solving in reality. Erlang helps make this easy. Here's how. (more…)