This presentation explores some common application design patterns, tools, libraries, and optimizations used by Erlang developers for server application design in production systems. Erlang programmers have boasted about high concurrency, fault tolerance, and high scalability. However, using the language alone for this isn’t enough to guarantee any of these properties: …
Learn how to think like an Erlang expert and design highly available long running systems. Many people have heard of Erlang, but very few have actually used it on production systems. In this talk I will be presenting Erlang/OTP in depth, and what makes this ecosystem interesting for building highly …
Elixir is a programming language for the Erlang VM. Elixir provides a first class macro mechanism, supports polymorphism via protocols (similar to Clojure’s) and many other features while keeping the functional aspects of Erlang used to build distributed, fault-tolerant applications.
In the world of social gaming with massive amounts of users, the classic architecture of web application does not cut it anymore. Wooga has already innovated quite a bit introducing stateful Erlang-based game servers. Now it is time to push the limits even further. Follow along the evolution of game …
This video presents one experience learning to program in Erlang, including what Erlang brings to the table and why you might want to make Erlang your next programming language. It discusses Erlang’s culture, history,community, syntax, features and power. Even if this video presents Erlang from the perspective of a Python …
Wrangler is an interactive refactoring tool for Erlang, integrated into both emacs and Eclipse. Wrangler’s refactorings cover structural changes such as function, variable and module renaming, function extraction and generalization. Wrangler recognizes macros in code, and can be used on a single file or across a whole project. Wrangler can …
