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Unique Resiliency of the Erlang VM, the BEAM and Erlang OTP
Irina Guberman demonstrates how unique features of the BEAM in combination with Erlang OTP can take a company's servers to the next level of resiliency and robustness.
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Scaling Erlang Cluster to 10,000 Nodes
Maxim Fedorov demonstrates an example of a live Erlang cluster being scaled from just a few nodes to 10,000 machines with no service interruption.
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Real-Time Functional Reactive Programming with Erlang
Peer Stritzinger, Kilian Holzinger discuss and show cyber-physical systems implemented with FRP-Erlang running on GRiSP, a bare-metal board running Erlang.
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Visualizing Home Automation with GRiSP
Claudia Doppioslash and Adam Lindberg introduce GRiSP, a home automation project written in Erlang and JavaScript/D3.
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A Practical Guide to GenStage with a Real-Life Use Case
Gyanendra Aggarwal introduces Elixir GenStage, a back-pressure abstraction, demonstrating how to use it through a real case warehouse automation.
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Erlang and Akka Actors–A Story of Tradeoffs
Pranav Rao discusses how BEAM differs from Akka actors implemented over the JVM and how design decisions can affect performance.
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Background Processing with RabbitMQ
Tatsuya Ono introduces TaskBunny, a background processing library, discussing implementation details and why they chose RabbitMQ over Erlang process/OTP.
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Testing Web Services with QuickCheck
Thomas Arts discusses how to test web services with QuickCheck.
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Prototype to Production: Creating Connected Hardware with Nerves
Justin Schneck demonstrates building simple devices using Nerves, discussing strategies for producing clean and maintainable code for embedded systems.
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Loquat: A Design for Large-scale Distributed Applications
Christopher Meiklejohn introduces Loqaut, a design for large-scale actor programming on the Erlang virtual machine.
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Cloud-Sourcing T.S. Eliot
Sarah Gray shares her observations from using Erlang to reconstruct poetry from live Twitter streams, what’s great and not so great about Erlang, what language features she loves, etc..
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Why We Chose Erlang over Java, Scala, Go, C
Colin Hemmings discusses when and why one should choose Erlang over other options, but also when not to choose it.