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Lets create some Erlang standards, part one

Nick Gerakines - December 28, 2009

A while ago I started a project called Heman. The goal was to create a way to use Erlang to measure and assess application health. Application health is a score used to determine how your application is doing. This could be as general as it’s…

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Lets create some Erlang standards, part one

Nick Gerakines - November 24, 2009

Have an open source Erlang project? Is it on GitHub? Jacob and I have been working on a project that aims to make it easier to install, remove and contribute to open source Erlang applications on GitHub. The project is called epm and it stands…

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2009 Erlang User Conference

Nick Gerakines - November 12, 2009

I’m currently at the Erlang User Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Jacob and I arrived pretty late last night from a long 28 hour day, but I’m really excited to be here. Stockholm is a beautiful city and I can’t wait to get out there and…

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CalendERL About Nothing

Nick Gerakines - November 01, 2009

Recently I create a site called CalendERL About Nothing. I’ve used the original Calendar About Nothing for a long time and played with the idea of rewriting it in Erlang. I finally made the leap and as a result the cerlan and githubby projects were…

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Globally Shared Queues

Nick Gerakines - October 26, 2009

In the Erlang apps that I’ve written, there seems to be a recurring issue. I’ll build an application made to run across several nodes but there could be some sort of shared process or functionality that is only meant to run on a single node.…

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Mochevent

Nick Gerakines - June 11, 2009

This past weekend I started a small work-related project called mochevent. It’s purpose is to offload the work HTTP request build up, tear down and socket handling onto a c application. As requests come in, the request method, uri, headers and body are dispatched off…

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Armory3, a proof of concept RabbitMQ application

Nick Gerakines - May 10, 2009

I’ve been having a lot of fun with RabbitMQ lately, the most recent accomplishment being porting the armory2 module to use a RabbitMQ queue instead of an ets table. With that said, this is the result of that work. The armory3 module is an extension…

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Erlang Factory

Nick Gerakines - May 01, 2009

Erlang-Factory is over and it was great. I’m so happy to see the many project and community leaders coming together to introduce their projects and get involved with each other’s work. There were 6 tracks throughout the 2 day conference that included “Erlang Case Studies”,…

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What’s been going on lately?

Nick Gerakines - April 02, 2009

Things were getting dusty around here so it’s time for me to give a nice life update. The big news is that we are moving! We found a nice 3 bedroom place just a few miles down from where we live in Mountain View. Carolyn…

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I Play WoW Scaling

Nick Gerakines - February 06, 2009

Having too much traffic is a great problem and I’m fortunate enough to be facing it at the moment. Over the past few weeks, thanks in part to several really great articles on WoW Insider about I Play WoW, I Play WoW traffic and use…

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