Hello and welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter! This week your humble editor is Mark Allen (@bytemeorg). I get to do a bonus release because of unexpected travel plan changes.
The first ever Indian Erlang and Elixir Factory Lite will happen in Bangalore, November 17, 2017. If you’re in the vicinity, please join us!
Articles and Blog posts
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Brujo Benavides wrote a lovely retrospective look at Inaka, titled The Best Company I ever worked for.
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If you hadn’t heard, Bet365 is acquiring Basho’s intellectual property and plans to open source all of it. There is a two day workshop in the UK where many of the interested parties can discuss the future of the code and the product.
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Mariano Guerra wrote part 2 of a post discussing Multi-Paxos in the context of riak_ensemble. (Catch up if you missed Part 1.)
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Aspiring BEAM wizards will appreciate the Understanding BEAM opcodes site.
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I learned something new about how pattern matching works in function heads this week when I asked a question about pattern matching using maps on Stack Overflow.
Richard Carlsson had the best answer.
OTP Updates
I noticed this README show up in my twitter feed this week. It’s about the asynchronous (non-blocking) code loading features of OTP since R16.
https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/erts/emulator/internal_doc/CodeLoading.md
Library of the week
Guilherme Andrade announced a new RPC-over-HTTP framework for Erlang. It does not rely on Erlang’s own distribution protocol.
https://github.com/g-andrade/backwater
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