It was the first day of my first Erlang-based system in production. I’ve invested some sensible amount of time to test and stabilize it. I’s were dotted, t’s were crossed and I felt confident that it would work reasonably well. The system broke in production within the first few hours of its life.
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Recently I came across two great articles on the Pusher blog: Low latency, large working set, and GHC’s garbage collector: pick two of three and Golang’s Real-time GC in Theory and Practice . The articles tell the story of how Pusher engineers reimplemented their message bus. The first take was done in Haskell. During…
It’s been about a year since I’ve started using Elixir. Originally, I intended to use the language only for blogging purposes, thinking it could help me better illustrate benefits of Erlang Virtual Machine (EVM). However, I was immediately fascinated with what the language brings to the table, and very quickly…