Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter!

Articles and Blog posts

• Brujo Benavides (@elbrujohalcon) and Marcos Almonacid (@m_amilkr) have decided to host another SpawnFest! What is that you ask? Go over to their website and get excited.

• Marcelo Gornstein (@mgornstein) wrote another yet another article this week and it’s about serving FastCGI with Erlang and Cowboy.

• Brujo Benavides wrote his second article on Erlang behaviors. If you missed part one, read it here.

• Snorri Sturluson (@CCP_Snorlax) continues with his Erlang adventures, this time it’s about Replication Mnesia.

• Head over to Erlang Solutions’s website for latest news on WombatOAM release.

• Sergey Prokhorov (@seriyps) sent out a link to a benchmark of different Erlang data structures. Definitely worth a look.

Library Updates

• Hackney 1.10.0 and Hackney 1.10.1 have been released with bunch of important bug fixes.

OTP Updates

Siri Hansen open an interesting PR this week, to optimize how supervisors store their children data. This is most interesting if you ever need to run a large number of children as the new design is more memory compact and faster:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/pull/1602

Library of the week

I’m so glad I asked for a suggestion for this week on the Erlanger Slack. The reason being Fred introduced me to this amazing library. docsh created by Radosław Szymczyszyn (@erszcz), allows you to search Erlang/OTP docs right from the REPL. I’m sure having this installed will boost your efficiency :) Check it out:

https://github.com/erszcz/docsh

Events and Meetups

• Erlang Solutions put up a calendar of all the events coming up.

Employment

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

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