Hello and welcome to “This week in Erlang”! As expected, there was a lot of action on the OTP side this week, and maybe a little too slow everywhere else. However, there was a piece of great news that came out this week. Read on!
Articles and Blog posts
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Bet365’s CEO announced that they will be buying all of Basho’s remaining assets and making everything open source: http://lists.basho.com/pipermail/riak-users_lists.basho.com/2017-August/019500.html
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There was a discussion on Hackernews about Pierre Fenoll’s Supercompiler Pass project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15064127
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Andrew Bennett (@potatosaladx) wrote another great article this week. It is about load testing Cowboy 2.0 and how it holds against Cowboy 1.1. Highly recommend reading it: https://potatosalad.io/2017/08/20/load-testing-cowboy-2-0-0-rc-1.html
Library updates
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Cowboy 2.0-rc2 was released with bunch of important bug fixes: https://ninenines.eu/articles/cowboy-2.0.0-rc.2/
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A new version of Rebar3 was released. Hurry and update since it’s a big release: https://github.com/erlang/rebar3/releases/tag/3.4.3
OTP Updates
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OTP 20.0.3 was released this week, with what seems like a few security fixes. Read about it at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/ThszrBokews and download the new package at https://github.com/erlang/otp/releases/tag/OTP-20.0.3
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There was a lot of PR merging happening on master OTP branch. But one that I particularly liked was Björn’s BEAM improvement commit. Prepare for performance improvements coming in the next release: https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/fbf740d68600b59dc5fa7bd76d0aa0d019e81a75
Library of the week
A very cool library that I still have not found a good use for is Inaka’s Niffy library. It was created by Brujo Benavides (@elbrujohalcon) and Hernán Rivas Acosta (@hernanrivasacosta) to make adding NIFs to Rebar3 projects easier. Have a look and see if it solves any of your problems:
Niffy: https://github.com/inaka/niffy Examples: https://github.com/HernanRivasAcosta/niffy_example
Project of the week
On one of the Erlang mailing list threads, Joe linked to Skel as a framework for making concurrent Erlang easier. I had forgotten about it, but this library/framework is really interesting and definitely worth a look: