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The Timeless Way of Building Erlang Apps
Garrett Smith outlines a methodology for pattern discovery and presents a number of specific patterns that Erlang programmers can use to build programs that feel alive.
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Evolving Projects to Concurrency with Wrangler
Simon Thompson shows how Wrangler can help with making systems run on multi-core hardware, including three Wrangler refactoring techniques for retrofitting concurrency to Erlang applications.
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LDB: 10x Performance Increase after Rewriting Linked-in C Module in Pure Erlang
Daniel Pezely discusses the 10 fold performance increase of a Lisp and C system after rewriting it in Erlang, outlining where issues existed before and the design and implementation of the new system.
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Actors for CyberThings
Carl Hewitt keynotes on the Actor Model and ActorScript, providing examples of using them for large-scale datacenters and IoT.
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What Elixir is About
José Valim introduces Elixir and some of the most important features: data types, modules, async, collections, parallelism, streams, etc.
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Distributed Eventually Consistent Computations
Christopher Meiklejohn looks at applying two techniques together, deterministic data flow programming and conflict-free replicated data types, to create highly available and fault-tolerant systems.
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Finding the Needle in the Haystack - or - Troubleshooting Distributed Systems
Anthony Molinaro discusses the challenges of troubleshooting distributed systems and using Mondemand to track down issues with various services in a distributed system.
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That's 'Billion' with a 'B': Scaling to the Next Level at WhatsApp
Rick Reed shares scalability and reliability insights, techniques, and hacks used and learned developing WhatsApp on an Erlang/FreeBSD infrastructure.
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Erjang - With the JVM Under the Hood
Kresten Krab Thorup introduces Erjang, an Erlang VM based on the JVM, disclosing some of its internal workings and challenges building it.
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Planning for Overload
Fred Hebert introduces two strategies for handling overload -load-shedding and back-pressure- along with different ways to make them work in Erlang focusing on the importance of planning for overload.
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Scaling HTTP Connections
Benoît Chesneau discusses creating, scaling and reusing HTTP connections, summarizing techniques used to reduce memory usage in Erlang and ways to handle massive client connections efficiently.
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10 Billion a Day, 100 Milliseconds Per: Monitoring Real-Time Bidding at AdRoll
Brian Troutwine shares insight on using Erlang for a highly concurrent and very low latency bidding system implemented by Adroll.