October 2008
5 posts
Writing and deploying non-trivial Erlang apps
I recently wrote a twitter bot in Erlang which taught me a lot of things about writing Erlang programs. This was my first non-trivial Erlang program. Quite frankly it left me with a lot of new unanswered questions.
How much to OTPify?
It seems like when someone writes an Erlang app, they roughly go through the following steps:
Use vanilla Erlang processes (hook things up with links and...
Best of Velocity '08: Web Ops.
I finally had time tonight to look at the presentations from Velocity 08. If you’re interested, they’re all available on the Oreilly conference website.
Personally I thought the following two talks were awesome:
Capacity Management by John Allspaw (Flickr Ops Mgr) [PPT]
Building an Automated Infrastructure by Adam Jacob [PPT]
John Allspaw has a new book titled “The Art of...
“Tharman said Singapore’s banking system is safe amid strict central bank...”
– Singapore’s econ slowdown to last several quarters-FinMin - Forbes.com
NYTimes on the Valley's Green-Tech craze →