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I don't recall which of us is planning on attending DataEngConf SF, but I'm asking around now. EDIT: Ah, it will be Vid Jain, the CEO of Wallaroo Labs.

No disagreement from me. It's definitely not easy to keep queues shallow end-to-end. In my experiences with Erlang systems, queue management is an area where the BEAM VM's runtime …

Howdy. I'm the author of both parts of this 2-page series on overload mitigation. Let me know if I've overlooked an important technique for handling too-big workloads or if you hav…

I, too, have a bit of experience with backpressure implementations in both Erlang and Pony. Erlang's "penalize the sender" doesn't work in many cases, so I'm not surprised that it'…

Hi, everyone. I'm the author of this article. My apologies in advance for not covering non-DTrace tools available to Linux. The intent was "long article" and not "comprehensive boo…

Good morning. The world has continued to turn, and now it's my turn to say hello and to offer a chance to answer questions from HN. -Scott

Howdy. Erlang's modules are involved in code namespace for the compiler & runtime (i.e., the 'M' of the 'MFA' triple of Module + Function name + Arity that names a function) as wel…

Good luck trying to convince your virtual server hosting service provider to provide R2D2 or similar.