Skerleton: bootstrap Erlang Projects in Seconds

Every time you create a brand-new Erlang project, some manual steps are required. Most of the times, this means fetching rebar via wget, copying and pasting a rebar.config from a previous project, making a bunch of new directories, creating an empty release, and so on and so forth.

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Killin' them softly (by name)

Sometimes is useful to kill an Erlang node by name. The task involves several manual steps, Here is a little helper which you might find helpful. Remember that if you want to kill all Erlang nodes running on a system rather than a specific one, you can simply do: killall beam.smp …

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Create and deploy your Erlang / Cowboy Application on Heroku in 30 minutes

</a> Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Cowboy is a small, fast and modular HTTP server written in Erlang. Heroku is a cloud application platform which allows you to deploy and scale your own application at pleasure. In this post, we will write an Erlang/Cowboy Web Application from scratch, deploying it on Heroku. Since Heroku offers a free tier for deploying web apps, this will cost you nothing. Also, the entire process should take no more than half an hour. Requirements You have git installed on your machine....…

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Erlang Workshop in Rome, Italy

For the third year in a row, Erlang Solutions will be present at Codemotion, one of the biggest IT conferences in Italy which focuses on innovative programming languages.This year, we propose a one day hands-on workshop on the Erlang programming language. I will hold the workshop in Rome on the 20th March. The workshop is titled”Erlang: multi-core and massive scalability” and it consists of a practical overview of the Erlang programming language. You can register to the workshop here. …

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