Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter.
Articles and Blog posts
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Brujo Benavides (@elbrujohalcon) has done another great “Erlang Battlegrounds” articles. The Asymmetry of ++ Validations.
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AdRoll engineering did a write-up on how they used data processing from Amazon Kinesis to their global caching system. Check it out
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Erlang was moved from 44th to 23rd on TIOBE’s programming language index for Jan 2018!
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Michał Muskała (@michalmuskala) has created a Trello board for all the improvements he wants to make to Erlang Compiler. He has been doing a lot of performance work on the OTP repo. So You must check his list for sure.
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Telichkin Roman (@telichkin_roman) created a repo with diagrams around OTP behaviors and how they work. Check it out.
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Sergey Prokhorov (@seriyps) has open sourced the code to his Erlang playground website. Check it out and do some contributions!
- Mariano Guerra (@warianoguerra) has done three great blog posts:
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Fred Hebert (@mononcqc) was brave enough to solve all of Advent of Code 2017 in Erlang. He has it all documented for your pleasure.
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Ross Schlaikjer (@rschlaikjer) wrote an article on binary pattern matching and how you can optimize your code for memory and speed.
- Robert Carbone (A true hero) has decided to make WxErlang simpler with much better documentation and diagrams. Checkout his post on the Erlang Mailing list.
Library of the week
There has been a lot of talk about blockchain technologies lately. So, why not talk about one here? The Archain project is a new archiving blockchain technology based on Erlang. Sam Williams (@samecwilliams) did a talk about the whole project at Code Mesh 2017:
Archain Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO3zyQvL3Yg
Archain Repo: https://github.com/ArchainTeam/archain
Employment
- Scrapinghub is hiring for a fully remote Lead Erlang Developer: https://jobs.lever.co/scrapinghub/2d86dc03-262a-4588-a1db-718201e52d56
Announcements
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