High scalability systems are one of our specialty. As we have grown our team over the last 6 months, we’ve had to scale our company as well. We would like to announce our partnership with Krakow Technology Park. Our new premises in KPT are currently getting the finishing touches. We will move over the next few…
Xprof is an open-source visual profiler for Erlang and Elixir. It is a relatively new addition and aims to sit in between complex enterprise level monitoring software and command line tracing and debugging tools. If you work with highly distributed, current systems with very low latency requirements, then XProf could be interesting. Peter recently presented at…
The Problem A scenario we have all been through, a new developer joins the team. She is using her own laptop with her favorite operating system, be it Windows, Linux, MacOS. On it, some favorite tools, fine-tuned and tweaked over the years. Possibly a remote worker. The tasks are ready; business is impatiently awaiting new…
Introduction In previous post (you can find it here) we talk about why we should automate. Now I would like to show our rationale for a new project and infrastructure for which we were responsible. That motivation which driven us into pure CloudFormation setup, why we bet on AWS, and why we decided to drop…
The Infrastructure automation dilemma There comes a time when every cloud computing project has to make a difficult choice – should we automate infrastructure or not? There are pros and cons but at a certain scale, automation is something you cannot escape. Immediately after you decide to automate the provisioning of your cloud infrastructure, another…
Intro I would like to give an overview of how we manage our fleet of hundreds of physical servers. How to scale, what problems you might face, what is good and what can kick your ass. It is not another story about deployment automation. This is more about our learning path which showed us that handing…
Pawel recently joined Appliscale. Based in Katowice, Pawel has considerable Java and Dev Ops experience. He is already knee deep in code as well as nappies! Pawel in his own words….. Pawel is an easy-going guy who doesn’t look like a software engineer at first glance (What does a software engineer look like ?). Under…
Appliscale will be represented at this years ElixirConf.EU 2017. Wojciech continues to clock up serious conference mileage as a serial attendee and presenter. As 1/3 of the Katowice trio, he will be presenting along with Artur and Michal in Barcelona. The group will be delivering a tutorial titled ‘Join the Elixir Fire Brigade – Level-up Your…
Now that all of the I’s have dotted we would like to welcome Eain to the team. Eain will be working to develop our existing customer relationships and to develop new partnerships. Based in Wexford in the South East of Ireland and a regular visitor to Krakow, Eain will divide his time between Poland and…
Yesterday at Erlang Solution office Wojtek Gawroński delivered a great talk taking everybody on a journey through the internals of Erlang VM and compilation process. He explained how he managed to create a compiler that turns BrainFuck code into BEAM VM byte code. You can see the presentation below. For the source code check out his github page.