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Implementation of “Don’t Lose Your ets Tables”

Steve Vinoski - steve - May 09, 2013

A couple years ago I wrote about how to avoid losing your ets tables if the Erlang processes that own those tables crash. The original post resulted from accidentally losing an ets table full of video subscriber data during a debug session on a live…

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2013 Erlang Workshop Call For Papers

Steve Vinoski - steve - February 20, 2013

The Twelfth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop will take place on September 28, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. See the call for papers for more details. It’s a satellite event of the 18th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), September 25–27, 2013. http://www.icfpconference.org/icfp2013/. The…

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Concurrency and Message Passing in Erlang

Steve Vinoski - steve - November 05, 2012

In July 2011 I received an email asking if I would write an article about Erlang for the IEEE Computers in Science and Engineering (CiSE) magazine. The email said they had first invited Joe Armstrong but Joe had recommended me instead — how could I…

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New Column: Server-Sent Events with Yaws

Steve Vinoski - steve - October 08, 2012

My latest Internet Computing column, Server-Sent Events with Yaws (PDF), is now available. It discusses the fact that developers are increasingly building Web applications that rely on notifications from the server, such as updates from social networks, alerts from application monitors, or information from sensor…

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QCon NYC

Steve Vinoski - steve - June 04, 2012

I’m looking forward to speaking about Erlang/OTP in the “Functional Programming Everywhere” track and also running the “Concurrency in the Large” track at QCon NYC, June 18-22. If you register using code VINO100 you’ll get $100 off your registration fee and the conference will donate…

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QCon London: Highly Available Systems

Steve Vinoski - steve - February 15, 2012

At QCon London March 7-9 I’ll be hosting a track on Highly Available Systems, which I’ll describe in more detail below. But first, be aware that if you register for the conference using promotion code VINO100, you’ll save yourself £100 off the registration fee plus…

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New Column: Wriaki

Steve Vinoski - steve - January 10, 2012

For the “Functional Web” column in the Jan/Feb 2012 issue of Internet Computing, I wrote about Wriaki, an Erlang sample application my Basho colleague Bryan Fink wrote that implements a wiki on top of Webmachine and Riak. Wriaki is a nice, clean, and easy to…

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New Column: Yaws

Steve Vinoski - steve - July 01, 2011

The July/August 2011 issue of Internet Computing is out, and this time my column (pdf) covers the Erlang Yaws web server. Since Yaws has too many features to detail in just one column, I wrote it as an introductory piece, covering only those features that…

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More Erlang Web Server Benchmarking

Steve Vinoski - steve - May 18, 2011

In my previous blog entry I questioned the value of most web server benchmarking, particularly as related to Erlang. Typical benchmarks are misleading, inaccurate, and poorly executed. Perhaps worse, the intent of publishing them seems to be to assert that the fastest web server (at…

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Erlang Web Server Benchmarking

Steve Vinoski - steve - May 10, 2011

Over on his blog, Roberto Ostinelli published “A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy, NodeJS and Tornadoweb.” I was going to write a reply comment there, but it got pretty long so I decided to publish it here instead. I’m going to ignore the non-Erlang web…

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