Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter.
Articles and Blog posts
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Roberto Aloi (@robertoaloi): Redbug is a debugging and tracing utility for Erlang. The article presents some recently added features to redbug, showing how to use them. - https://medium.com/@robertoaloi/tracing-child-processes-with-redbug-684b647c12a1
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Erlang Solutions (@erlangsolutions): Oleg Tarasenko from ErlangSolutions wrote an article explaining how to use Docker to run and manage your Erlang distribution. This is an article to help you “modernize” your tech setup :) - https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/running-distributed-erlang-elixir-applications-on-docker.html
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Ross Schlaikjer (@rschlaikjer): This article goes over Erlang NIFs (Native Implemented Functions) and how to use them. Ross shows how you can take a slow pure Erlang implementation and make it performant. - https://rhye.org/post/native-methods-in-erlang/
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Neeraj Sharma (@nsharma9): Neeraj goes over Marina and few other Erlang tools/libraries for dealing with Cassandra. A great read. - https://medium.com/@nsharma9/high-performance-erlang-cassandra-client-marina-f7e93edf8677
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Lazarus Lazaridis (@lazaru_s): It’s not about Erlang but it is something a lot of developers might want to do for their own command line tools or workflow. This is a nice step-by-step tutorial that describes how to build a bash completion script for your CLIs. - https://opensource.com/article/18/3/creating-bash-completion-script
OTP Updates
- I randomly stumbled upon something very exciting while browsing for the OTP repo on Github. It seems like the Erlang dev team is planning a Dev Blog! This is amazing. - https://erlang.github.io/
Events and Meetups
- If you are in Denver, go checkout this meetup: - https://www.meetup.com/Denver-Erlang-Elixir/events/248469248/?_cookie-check=Zf3Sj5uwG-LRn_UT
Announcements
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