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London Erlang User Group Slides

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 28, 2011

While attending QCon recently I also spoke at the London Erlang User Group meeting. I gave a quick talk about Erlang Native Implemented Functions (NIFs) as used in my little erlsha2 implementation. Slides are here (pdf).

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Don’t Lose Your ets Tables

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 23, 2011

In my recent QCon talk I talked about accidentally crashing an Erlang process on a customer’s subscription streaming video website running live in production. The code involved had not been used in production before, and the customer had decided somewhat unexpectedly to turn on a…

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Process Bottlenecks in Erlang Web Apps

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 20, 2011

In my “Functional Web” March/April 2011 column (PDF), I explore potential process bottleneck problems within Erlang web applications, specifically around the issue of process fan-in. I’ve seen developers create Erlang web applications that suffer from bottlenecks related to interprocess communication as explained in the column,…

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New Erlang SHA-2 Implementation

Steve Vinoski - steve - February 21, 2011

A few years ago I wrote a pure Erlang version of the SHA-2 hash algorithms (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512). They were kinda slow but they worked fine, and a number of people used them. I’ve now rewritten the functions in a new Erlang library application…

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Media Distribution Talk on InfoQ

Steve Vinoski - steve - January 10, 2011

InfoQ recently posted my keynote from the March 2010 Erlang Factory Bay Area. The keynote, entitled Using Erlang in a Carrier-Grade Media Distribution Switch, presents some of the work my colleagues and I at Verivue have been engaged in over the past few years. Since…

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New Column, New Interview

Steve Vinoski - steve - July 17, 2010

A couple newsworthy items: The July/August 2010 issue (PDF) of The Functional Web column is available, this time with guest columnist Aaron Bedra writing about using Clojure and the Compojure web framework on the Google App Engine platform. Pretty interesting read, and plenty of code…

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“Erlang the Movie” Poster

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 29, 2010

They handed out this poster at Erlang Factory. Brilliant!

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Erlang Factory: You Should’ve Been There

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 29, 2010

The Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010 conference just wrapped up last Friday, and it was fantastic. The talks were of high quality and the conference organization was excellent. The slides for all the talks should be on the Erlang Factory site soon. If you…

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New Column on Webmachine

Steve Vinoski - steve - March 15, 2010

“The Functional Web” column is finally back, this time with a column about Webmachine co-authored with Justin Sheehy. The column title is Developing RESTful Web Services with Webmachine, and you can follow that link to retrieve the PDF. Webmachine is a highly innovative web application…

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Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010

Steve Vinoski - steve - January 30, 2010

Interested in Erlang? You might consider attending Erlang Factory SF Bay Area 2010. Below is a message that Francesco Cesarini, conference organizer and co-author of the most excellent book Erlang Programming, sent to the erlang-questions list yesterday providing more information about the conference, especially pointing…

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