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Part 1: Introducing riak_core

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - July 30, 2010

What is riak_core?   riak_core is a single OTP application which provides all the services necessary to write a modern, well-behaved distributed application. riak_core began as part of Riak. Since the code was generally useful in building all kinds of distributed applications we decided to…

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Erlang Pattern: The Router

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - October 19, 2009

There are three components to this pattern. The client, the router, and the target. The client begins the process by calling the router with a message destined for a target. The router uses the message, and possibly other metadata, to locate a desirable target. Then…

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Tomorrow Night

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - September 10, 2009

I’ll be speaking tomorrow night at a joint meeting of DC ALT.NET, Novalang, and Arlington Erlang Users’ Group. I’ve got two full hours to fill so I’m planning on covering a lot of ground. I’ll be leading off with a gentle but speedy introduction to…

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CouchDB Benchmarks: gcc vs. clang

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - September 06, 2009

Since the release of Snow Leopard, I’ve been itching to run some benchmarks. Jan Lehnhardt suggested I give the benchmarking script from this bug a few runs. So that’s what I did. At first glance testing seemed pretty simple. Compile one version of Erlang with…

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September’s Speaking Gigs

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - August 25, 2009

I’m speaking at two events in September. First, I’m making the trek to DC to speak at the 9/10 combinedmeeting of the Erlang Users of Arlington/DC, Alt.NET, and NovaLang groups to talk about web development with webmachine and Erlang. I’d appreciate any tips on decent…

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What A Summer!

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - August 23, 2009

Wow. I can’t believe it’s been two months — almost to the day — since I’ve written an update here. This summer has been extremely busy for me, but in a good way. I’m happy to report the demand for Erlang expertise is steady and…

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Win32 Linked-In Drivers and A Project Idea

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - June 19, 2009

I’ve been living in linked-in driver land for the past few weeks. I guess that’s what I get for publishing basic_erl_driver. It’s been interesting work so I certainly haven’t minded doing it. Well, I didn’t mind it until I had to build one of my…

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Hands-On Erlang Cancelled

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - June 12, 2009

Due to a host of sour economic factors I’ve decided to cancel the Hands-On Erlang training class scheduled for mid-July in Chicago. All registered attendees will be receiving a complete refund by the end of today. I’d like to thank the attendees who did enroll…

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It’s erlounge RDU time again

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - June 08, 2009

Wow. Another month has gone by and it’s time for another erlounge. Things have gotten a bit stale of late and I’ve no-one to blame but myself. It’s time I fixed that. So. This month, and subsequent months, we’re going to start splitting the meetings…

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Erlang Trick O’ The Day

Hypothetical Labs - kevin - June 02, 2009

I’ve been researching Erlang <-> Javascript integration for a client project and decided to take a look at how CouchDB integrates with Spidermonkey. Along the way I found the couch_os_process:init/1 function: init([Command, Options, PortOptions]) -> case code:priv_dir(couch) of {error, bad_name} -> % small hack, in…

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