Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter! We are one day behind schedule but that should be okay. Right?

Articles and Blog posts

• Marcelo Gornstein (@mgornstein) wrote an article on how to call FastCGI from erlang.

• Brujo Benavides (@elbrujohalcon) wrote an article on Erlang behaviors and how to use them.

• Marcelo Gornstein wrote another article on an Erlang tutorial for PHP developers.

• Snorri Sturluson (@CCP_Snorlax) is blogging about his experiences with Erlang. Check it out: https://ccpsnorlax.blogspot.co.uk/2017/10/expiring-records-in-erlang.html

Library Updates

• Robert Virding (@rvirding) has pushed a lot of updates to luerl. Checkout the Github page or the website.

• A new version of epgsql was released. Checkout the details: https://github.com/epgsql/epgsql/releases/tag/3.4.0

OTP Updates

OTP 20.1.2 was released with a very important bug fix. Checkout the announcement here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/-7a7Jl30WK4

Library of the week

This week we have a suggestion by Fred Hèbert (@mononcqc). eministat by Jesper L. Andersen (@jlouis666) is a statistical comparison library. You can use it to compare your benchmark datasets and find out useful information:

https://github.com/jlouis/eministat

Project of the week

HolidayPing, suggested by @warianoguerra, is a webapp that can be used to notify all of your important contacts on your time off dates. Backend is done in Erlang and the frontend is done in ClojureScript. We need more projects like this!

https://holidayping.lambdaclass.com/

Events and Meetups

• Don’t forget that Codemesh is happening soon and tickets are selling out! Early bird tickets are closing on Oct 17th and you can also get group discounts. Check out all the info here: http://www.codemesh.io/#home

• Portland Erlang & Elixir meetup is happening on Oct 18th! https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Erlang-Elixir-User-Group/events/243874734/

Employment

• Helium is looking for Erlang/Rust engineers: https://angel.co/helium-2/jobs/281695-software-engineer

• Erlang Solutions is hiring Erlang developers: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/careers/careers.html

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