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Instrumentation Talks, To Date

Instrumentation Talks, To Date

I've spoken twice recently this year on the instrumentation of complex systems, at SF Bay Area Erlang Factory in February and at Portland, OR Write the Docs in May. The Erlang Factory talk is a bit more engineer focused while the Write the Docs talk is for a more general,

An Incomprehensive Bibliography

An Incomprehensive Bibliography

This is an incomprehensive bibliography for the books and articles that have influenced my thinking around Instrumentation by Default for complex systems. As this is an area of ongoing personal research this bibliography is necessarily a vague snapshot. Books The following texts are sorted--roughly--in order of importance: * Charles Perrow, "Normal

The Utility of Erlang Records: Where They Should and Probably Shouldn't be Replaced by Maps

The Utility of Erlang Records: Where They Should and Probably Shouldn't be Replaced by Maps

There are two kinds of associations common in software: 0. A fixed mapping from a set of pre-defined names to values. 1. A dynamic mapping from a type domain to another. As an example of the first, consider C structs or Haskell data declarations with named fields. You have a

Making Trivial Erlang/OTP Releases With Relx

Thanks to Tristan Sloughter [https://twitter.com/t_sloughter] and his recent work on relx [https://github.com/erlware/relx/pull/29] making an Erlang/OTP no-downtime release is now super, super trivial. Like, so trivial you should just go ahead and plan to do it. In this article I'm

When would you choose Erlang?

When would you choose Erlang?

I'm one of the Lucky Few (thousand?) that get to work with Erlang professionally. Lots of people I meet are interested in the language--or Elixir, increasingly, though I happen to think LFE [http://lfe.github.io/] should be the new hotness--but have only used the language for small hobby projects

Ternary Search Trie in Erlang

The last few months I've not done a terrible amount hobby programming; I spent much of the time interviewing (successfully!) at Rackspace and, since arriving in San Antonio, have been busy learning the team code-base. There were a few hobby projects I finished during February-April period, the one I'm most