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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 they share many keywords, such as "self-healing", "horizontal scaling", "distribution", etc. Th... (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.

Our readers will understand it was inevitable for us to be interested in Juan Facorro's project, ClojErl. And of course, we interviewed him about it. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. (more…)

This is a loose transcript (or long paraphrasing?) of a presentation given at ConnectDev'16, a conference organized by Genetec in which I was invited to speak. (more…)