Making Trivial Erlang/OTP Releases With Relx
Thanks to Tristan Sloughter and his recent work on relx making an Erlang/OTP no-downtime release is now super, super trivial. Like, so trivial you should »
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, »
Cooperative Functional Testing of REST APIs
There's something I was told that's been flitting around my mind, paraphrased: "Functional testing, done repeatedly, is pretty much monitoring." I'm not entirely convinced »
Adaptable REST resource model in Ruby.
Infrastructure services: it's what I do now. The primary service I work on is FireEngine, previously mentioned in this blog. It's a network device abstraction service, »
Dropwizard's Health Checks, Metrics and Operation Focus
I got a chance, finally, to play with Yammer's Dropwizard a bit this weekend. It's an interesting library/mini-framework that does so very much to showcase »