Me Meme: An adaptive news digest based on your interests
About a month ago, I quietly released a daily news digest service, called Me Meme. This is an email companion …
Category Archives: erlang
Really simple replication in riak
Production applications typically have a separate environment for disaster recovery and business continuity. Depending on the needs of the application, …
Multipart anonymous functions
I didn’t think this was possible, but as I was perusing some code (and consequently making a fork), I discovered …
Overlay variables and rebar
I’m in the process of distributing an erlang application over many nodes, which is different from distributing control (via kernel …
Teaser: Running R as a map/reduce job from Riak
Alliterations aside, here is a preview of something I’ve been tinkering with. My goal is to be able to run …
When random isn’t random
In erlang, random isn’t always random. Purists will claim that pseudo random number generators are never truly random, so who …
A Lager primer (or getting started with lager for logging)
Most erlang applications use a combination of the default run_erl logging and sasl/error_logger. I briefly discussed tweaking the run_erl logging …
Changing default log behavior in erlang
If you’ve ever been annoyed at the 100k limit to log files in erlang releases, here is the solution. Releases …
Living with the repo man (or using rebar with agner)
Today I was exposed to an erlang package management tool called agner. It wasn’t something I was expecting to appear, …
Map/reduce tips and tricks in Riak
One of the more compelling aspects of Riak is the general concept of moving processing to the data. In a …
