Welcome to another version of “This Week In Erlang”. I think we had a slow week, but I assume it’s going to pick up as the OTP seem to have came back from vacation :P. I think the biggest news of all is ErlangSolution’s support for Riak. However, there is more!
Articles and Blog posts
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ErlangSolutions announced that they provide Basho Riak support even after Basho’s death: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/riak-commercial-support-now-available-post-basho.html
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Andrew Bennett (@potatosaladx) wrote a really good article on performance of Drivers, NIFs, and Ports here: https://potatosalad.io/2017/08/05/latency-of-native-functions-for-erlang-and-elixir.html
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Alexander Færøy did an awesome presentation on his complete implementation of Tor on Erlang (Talla): https://media.ccc.de/v/SHA2017-304-introducing_talla_an_erlang_implementation_of_tor
Library updates
- Ulf Wiger released a new version of his
jobslibrary, check it out: https://github.com/uwiger/jobs
OTP Updates
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A lot PRs are getting attention, again. Couple of interesting compiler optmization and performance PRs are in the works.
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You can always contribute to OTP by going to https://github.com/erlang/otp.
Library of the week
If you have worked with Erlang long enough you have ran into a situation where you a single gen_server was not enough to handle your load. The message queue just can’t keep up. You may have wrote your own batching/pooling/etc. strategy, but I want to show a very stable library to make it all easy for you. Worker_pool by Inaka is worht a look:
https://github.com/inaka/worker_pool
Project of the week
Suggested by Mariabo (@warianoguerra) I wan’t to introduce you to this amazing project that is based on Erlang. Check it out! https://bragful.com/en
Announcements
- As usual you can find all of this on github, make suggestions, and help make this newsletter better: https://github.com/gootik/this-week-in-erlang