Good news! Recordings for NDC Oslo is up and I’ve curated all the talks from the FP track this year for your enjoyment https://vimeo.com/171942750 https://vimeo.com/171996394 https://vimeo.com/172009502 https://vimeo.com/171927598 https://vimeo.com/171704652
So NDC Oslo has come and gone, and whilst we wait for the videos for NDC Oslo to be available here are all the FP talks from NDC London this year. Enjoy
Great news, recording of all the talks at this year’s NDC Oslo has been uploaded to Vimeo! It’s a lot of videos to go through, so I’ve curated all the talks from the FP track this year, including my new talk “A tour of the language landscape” where I covered some interesting ideas and concepts …
Stumbled across this slidedeck today, it’s very informative and so I feel obliged to share!
Whilst talking with an ex-colleague, a question came up on how to implement the Stable Marriage problem using a message passing approach. Naturally, I wanted to answer that question with Erlang! Let’s first dissect the problem and decide what processes we need and how they need to interact with one another. The stable marriage problem …
Some time ago, Microsoft announced Orleans, an implementation of the actor model in .Net which is designed for the cloud environment where instances are ephemeral. We’re currently working on a number of projects in Erlang and have run into some assumptions in distributed Erlang which doesn’t hold true in a cloud-hosted environment where nodes are …
A look at Microsoft Orleans through Erlang-tinted glasses Read More »
Bit Syntax in Erlang One of the often under-appreciated features of Erlang is its Bit Syntax for parsing and pattern matching binary data at a bit level. For instance, to pare TCP segments you can write something along the line of: The same capability can be applied to anything binary protocols, such as video encoding, …
F# – Imitating Erlang’s bit syntax for easier binary protocol implementation Read More »
Whilst the official rebar documentation only covers usages on Unix, turns out it was really easy to get going on Windows too, even without resorting to installing and using cygwin. Here’s some quick steps: clone the rebar repo in the root of the repo, run bootstrap.bat (you’ll need Erlang installed for this) copy the generated …
I was recently invited to chat to the Mostly Erlang podcast about F#, with co-host Bryan Hunter, Fred Hebert (author of the excellent Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!) and fellow F# addict Phil Trelford (author of many popular F# libraries such as TickSpec, Mini Rx and Foq). It’s always nice to talk about …
Considering a very simple finite state machine (FSM) such as a code lock which requires you to enter a 4-digit numeric code and upon which will open the lock for a brief few seconds. Such a FSM have two states: Locked and Open. Every time a key is entered it checks the sequence of digits …
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