Category Archives: Distributed Computing

Why I love Smalltalk | Pablo’s blog
http://pupeno.com/2011/07/28/why-i-love-smalltalk/
Comparison with Erlang and others

Try 10 Programming Languages in 10 minutes
http://trelford.com/blog/post/ten.aspx

A Peek Inside the Erlang Compiler
http://prog21.dadgum.com/127.html

Ankur Blogoyal | Node.js is backwards
http://blog.ankurgoyal.com/post/6433642218/node-js-is-backwards

Scaling with Riak at ooVoo | Basho
http://basho.com/scaling-with-riak-at-oovoo/

Episodio 4 de la temporada 1 – Erlang con Alvaro Videla – @old_sound | ViveCodigo – Podcast
http://vivecodigo.org/2013/10/02/episodio-4-de-la-temporada-1-erlang-con-alvaro-videla-old_sound/

Erlang Websocket Server using Cowboy
http://marcelog.github.io/articles/erlang_websocket_server_cowboy_tutorial.html

Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Elixir-Erlang-VM

A Q&A With Opa Creator Henri Binsztok | Regular Geek
http://regulargeek.com/2012/04/30/a-qa-with-opa-creator-henri-binsztok/

Tsung
http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
Tsung is an open-source multi-protocol distributed load testing tool

Strange Loop Conference Videos
http://www.infoq.com/conferences/strangeloop2013/

Concurrency
http://concurrency.tumblr.com/

▶ Erlang The Movie II: The Sequel – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ&feature=youtu.be

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Erlang: Links, News And Resources (7)

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Erlang Bookmarks
https://github.com/0xAX/erlang-bookmarks/blob/master/ErlangBookmarks.md

The Go Circuit Project: Paradigm for developing and sustaining Big Data apps
http://www.gocircuit.org/

Recon Library
http://ferd.github.io/recon/
Recon is a library to be dropped into any other Erlang project, to be used to assist DevOps people diagnose problems in production nodes.

ferd/pobox
https://github.com/ferd/pobox
External buffer processes to protect against mailbox overflow in Erlang

Embedding the Nitrogen Web Framework into an Existing Erlang Application | Sigma Star Systems
http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/embedding-nitrogen

Leapfrogging Online Payments & Burying Tech Debt
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/refactoring-erlang
David Craelius tells the story of Klarna building an online payment system in Erlang and their approach to solving the nightmare of technical debt accumulated during a period of fast expansion.

Productivity Gains in Erlang
http://www.slideshare.net/JanHenryNystrom/productivity-gains-in-erlang

Erlang at Basho, Five Years Later | Basho
http://basho.com/erlang-at-basho-five-years-later/

langref.org
http://langref.org/

How attached are you — Functional Erlang — Medium
https://medium.com/functional-erlang/6d31b7af25d4

Erlang processes — Functional Erlang — Medium
https://medium.com/functional-erlang/c527f4b30544

How does Cloud Haskell currently compare with Erlang/OTP, Scala/Akka, Clojure/Storm? : haskell
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ft2l2/how_does_cloud_haskell_currently_compare_with/

Building Services With Erlang webmachine
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/679/webmachine_services.pdf
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/679/webmachine_services.pdf

Scaling systems configuration at Facebook: The paradigms, design, and software behind managing massive numbers of systems with open source and small teams – Phil Dibowitz | Opscode Blog
http://www.opscode.com/blog/chefconf-talks/chefconf-2013-scaling-systems-configuration-at-facebook-the-paradigms-design-and-software-behind-managing-massive-numbers-of-systems-with-open-source-and-small-teams-phil-dibowitz/

An interview with Stavros Aronis about #erlang and Dialyzer | Paolo D’Incau’s Blog
http://pdincau.wordpress.com/2013/05/31/an-interview-with-stavros-aronis-about-erlang-and-dialyzer/

A beginners guide to Erlang – Ward Bekker
http://blog.equanimity.nl/blog/2013/05/29/a-beginners-guide-to-erlang/

Writing RabbitMQ Plugins With Elixir
http://videlalvaro.github.io/2013/06/writing-rabbitmq-plugins-with-elixir.html

The Three Laws of Programming Language Design | Lambda the Ultimate
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4754

A Week with Elixir
http://joearms.github.io/2013/05/31/a-week-with-elixir.html
Elixir is a functional, meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM.

Scale-free engineering
http://www.gocircuit.org/scalefree.html

Liberator – Welcome
http://clojure-liberator.github.io/liberator/
Liberator is a Clojure library that helps you expose your data as resources while automatically complying with all the relevant requirements of the HTTP specification (RFC-2616). Your resources will automatically gain useful HTTP features, such as caching and content negotiation. Liberator was inspired by Erlang’s Webmachine.

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Angel “Java” Lopez
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Akka: Links, News And Resources (7)

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ThreadPools
http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.2.x/ThreadPools

chanan/AkkaGuice
https://github.com/chanan/AkkaGuice

typesafe.com
http://typesafe.com/blog/running-a-2400-akka-nodes-cluster-on-google-compute-engine

Distributed Publish Subscribe in Cluster — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.3/contrib/distributed-pub-sub.html

Microkernel — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.3/scala/microkernel.html

Typesafe Blog – PlayFramework – Blog – Typesafe
http://typesafe.com/blog/PlayFramework

yngui/akka-disruptor
https://github.com/yngui/akka-disruptor

Dispatchers — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/dispatchers.html

rogeralsing/Pigeon
https://github.com/rogeralsing/Pigeon
Akka in C#

Getting Started Tutorial (Scala): First Chapter — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.0.2/intro/getting-started-first-scala.html

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Angel “Java” Lopez
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Akka: Links, News And Resources (6)

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https://github.com/ajlopez/SimpleActors
https://github.com/ajlopez/Aktores

You know: I’m interested in actor models in general, and Akka implementation in particular, having distributed applications. I started two projects implementing Akka ideas, in Node.js and in C#:

Now, more links of my collection of links:

mrb: Distributed Systems Archaeology: Ricon West, 2013.10.30
http://michaelrbernste.in/2013/11/22/distributed-systems-archaeology.html

Using Akka in Scala IDE – Stack Overflow
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13585927/using-akka-in-scala-ide

Pacific Northwest Scala 2013 Akka in Production: Our Story by Evan Chan – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1heorOM2LE

Akka vs Storm | Blog of Adam Warski | Planet JBoss Community
http://planet.jboss.org/post/akka_vs_storm

Akka in Production: Our Story
http://www.slideshare.net/EvanChan2/akka-inproductionpnw-scala2013

typesafe.com
http://typesafe.com/blog/typesafe-gets-sprayed

Typesafe Reactive Platform Acquires New High-Performance HTTP Foundation
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/Typesafe-Reactive-Platform-Acquires-New-High-Performance-HTTP-Foundation-1841738.htm

Dev Time: Cope with Failure – Actor Supervision in Akka
http://blog.florian-hopf.de/2013/10/cope-with-failure-actor-supervision-in.html

Akka Work Pulling Pattern to prevent mailbox overflow, throttle and distribute work » Michael on development
http://www.michaelpollmeier.com/akka-work-pulling-pattern/

Going Reactive: Event-Driven, Scalable, Resilient & Responsive Systems
http://www.slideshare.net/jboner/going-reactive-eventdriven-scalable-resilient-systems

Let it crash • Where Akka Came From
http://letitcrash.com/post/40599293211/where-akka-came-from

Typed Channels (EXPERIMENTAL) — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2.1/scala/typed-channels.html

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Angel “Java” Lopez
http://www.ajlopez.com
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Erlang: Links, News And Resources (6)

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Elixir – A modern approach to programming for the Erlang VM on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/53221562

15 Erlang – Distributed Programs – Node Creation – YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ93akCarck

JLOUIS Ramblings: Acme as an editor
http://jlouisramblings.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/acme-as-editor_20.html

Erlang/OTP at EE: journey and lessons learned – Erlang User Group (London, England) – Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/erlangusergroup/events/116722662/

Erlang Factory – Dublin Erlang Factory Lite 2013 – Register
https://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/Dublin2013/register

Aprendiendo Erlang: Comunicación entre procesos (Ping-Pong).
http://aprendiendo-erlang.blogspot.com.ar/2011/06/comunicacion-entre-procesos-ping-pong.html

Erlang — Concurrent Programming
http://www.erlang.org/doc/getting_started/conc_prog.html

extend/bullet · GitHub
https://github.com/extend/bullet
Bullet is a Cowboy handler and associated Javascript library for maintaining a persistent connection between a client and a server.

duomark/erlangsp · GitHub
https://github.com/duomark/erlangsp
Erlang Services Platform

Erlang the movie II the sequel
http://www.gar1t.com/blog/2013/03/21/erlang-the-movie-ii-the-sequel/

Erlang-style Supervisor Module for Scala Actors ←
http://jonasboner.com/2008/06/16/erlang-style-supervisor-module-for-scala-actors/

Open Telecom Platform – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Telecom_Platform

What They Don’t Teach You About Running a Business When Taking Your CS Degree
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Business-Lessons-Cesarini

Parsing packets Erlang style using core.logic
http://tgk.github.com/2013/02/parsing-packets-erlang-style-using-core-logic.html

ErlangDC 2013 Conference
http://erlangdc.com/

jacobgroundwater/federation · GitHub
https://github.com/jacobgroundwater/federation
Node.js. Federation is inspired by Akka and Erlang, and borrows some semantics from the actor model.

Federation by jacobgroundwater
http://underflow.ca/federation/
Federation is a federated message network for distributed environments

Programming Rules
http://www.erlang.se/doc/programming_rules.shtml

[erlang-questions] hobbyists, erlang, elixir (was Improve $handle_undefined_function)
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2013-January/071949.html

Merge branch ‘bjorn/remove-parameterized-modules/OTP-10616’ · 35adf88 · erlang/otp
https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/35adf88290339ecdbbcd0a1290032d599bda26c4#commitcomment-2459599

Persisting your entities in erlang
http://marcelog.github.com/articles/erlang_persistence_entities.html

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Angel “Java” Lopez
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Erlang: Links, News And Resources (5)

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I have more links about this interesting programming language and distributed technology:

Erlang/OTP: Volumen I, Un Mundo Concurrente | Bosque Viejo
http://bosqueviejo.net/2012/11/25/erlangotp-volumen-i-un-mundo-concurrente/

Erlang/OTP
http://erlang.bosqueviejo.net/

High Scalability – High Scalability – BigData using Erlang, C and Lisp to Fight the Tsunami of Mobile Data
http://highscalability.com/blog/2012/11/26/bigdata-using-erlang-c-and-lisp-to-fight-the-tsunami-of-mobi.html

What Can Be Done with Java but Should Better Be Done with Erlang
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-Java

Erjang
http://erjang.org/
Erjang is a virtual machine for Erlang, which runs on Java

What’s Your Next JVM Language?
http://www.infoq.com/research/next-jvm-language

The Erlang stack | the web dev
http://thewebdev.de/the-erlang-stack/

cannedprimates/stdlib2
https://github.com/cannedprimates/stdlib2
Erlang stdlib extensions

Elixir v0.7.1 released and the end of a journey – Elixir
http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2012/11/18/elixir-v0-7-1-released-and-the-end-of-a-journey/

Erlang Scales … Do You?
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Erlang-Scalability

Lambda Luminaries (Pretoria) – Meetup
http://www.meetup.com/lambda-luminaries

Erlang: Is Elixir (elixir-lang.org) production ready? – Quora
http://www.quora.com/Erlang/Is-Elixir-elixir-lang-org-production-ready?srid=d34&st=ns

Elixir
http://elixir-lang.org/
Elixir is a functional meta-programming aware language built on top of the Erlang VM

Why I Program In Erlang
http://www.evanmiller.org/why-i-program-in-erlang.html

I hope Wittgenstein would approve / erlang-subscribe-at~couchdb.apache.org
http://wactbprot.tumblr.com/post/33831719034/erlang-subscribe-at-couchdb-apache-org

Episode 12 – Isaac Schlueter – http://www.jsconflive.com
http://www.jsconflive.com/pages/20120631

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Angel “Java” Lopez
http://www.ajlopez.com
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Akka: Links, News And Resources (5)

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spray | Documentation » 1.1-M8 » spray-routing » Advanced Topics » Understanding the DSL Structure
http://spray.io/documentation/1.1-M8/spray-routing/advanced-topics/understanding-dsl-structure/

ktonga/meetup-akka-spray · GitHub
https://github.com/ktonga/meetup-akka-spray
Example from Buenos Aires meetup

Event Bus — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/event-bus.html

Testing Actor Systems — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/snapshot/scala/testing.html

spray | REST/HTTP for your Akka/Scala Actors
http://spray.io/

「Effective Actors」 Speaker: Jamie Allen（Typesafe） on Vimeo
http://vimeo.com/65556264

How does Cloud Haskell currently compare with Erlang/OTP, Scala/Akka, Clojure/Storm? : haskell
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ft2l2/how_does_cloud_haskell_currently_compare_with/

Introduction to Actors Systems
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Akka-Actors

Mile High DDD 2013 by Paul Rayner & Vaughn Vernon
http://milehighddd.com/

Books — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.2-M2/additional/books.html

Play Framework – Build Modern & Scalable Web Apps with Java and Scala
http://www.playframework.com/

Open Source Training – Marakana
http://marakana.com/

Futures in Akka with Scala | Java Code Geeks
http://www.javacodegeeks.com/2013/03/futures-in-akka-with-scala.html

Let it crash • The Second Step: Akka Typed Channels
http://letitcrash.com/post/45188487245/the-second-step-akka-typed-channels

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Akka: Links, News And Resources (4)

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http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf

Introducing Akka – Simpler Scalability, Fault-Tolerance, Concurrency & Remoting through Actors ?
http://jonasboner.com/2010/01/04/introducing-akka/

The Scala Actors Migration Guide – Scala Documentation
http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/actors-migration-guide.html

akka/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/pattern/AskSupport.scala at master · akka/akka · GitHub
https://github.com/akka/akka/blob/master/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/pattern/AskSupport.scala

Akka and CUDA | Javalobby
http://java.dzone.com/articles/akka-and-cuda?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+javalobby/frontpage+(Javalobby+/+Java+Zone)

Actor throttling strategies – Akka User List | Google Groups
https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user/browse_thread/thread/34ffd95414b73be

Could spray have been a wrapper over netty? – Google Groups
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spray-user/7l1RbqxRuic/discussion

Remoting (Scala) — Akka Documentation
http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/remoting.html

Tutorial: Asynchronous Programming With Akka Actors
http://jaxenter.com/tutorial-asynchronous-programming-with-akka-actors-46220.html

Let it crash • Case Study: An Auto-Updating Cache Using Actors
http://letitcrash.com/post/30509298968/case-study-an-auto-updating-cache-using-actors

Let it crash • Balancing Workload Across Nodes with Akka 2
http://letitcrash.com/post/29044669086/balancing-workload-across-nodes-with-akka-2

jacobgroundwater/federation · GitHub
https://github.com/jacobgroundwater/federation

Federation by jacobgroundwater
http://underflow.ca/federation/