Background Back in high school, I went through almost an entire book on C++. It was extremely interesting but the things I created were always command-line applications and – never once in my life – I’ve built a C++ application with a GUI, even the simplest one. It just seemed to be too much of…
Why Phoenix Last year we had the opportunity to develop an enterprise-class platform using the Elixir language. Our client was interested in the speed and flexibility. Requests for a software written in Elixir are rare. Nevertheless, we didn’t hesitate to pick up the gauntlet. Apart from the language requirement, we were left with a choice…
As the video’s for Code Beam STO 2018 are released, I thought it would be a great time to share some of my thoughts on this year’s conference. This was my sixth year attending the conference (historically known as “Erlang User Conference”) and my second time presenting. As always, the conference was well organised and…
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…