https://livesys.se/tags/erlang/ Recent content in Erlang on Living Systems_ Hugo en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:25:00 +0200 https://livesys.se/posts/flowbased-vs-erlang-message-passing/ Sat, 13 Jun 2015 14:25:00 +0200 https://livesys.se/posts/flowbased-vs-erlang-message-passing/ <p><strong>I think Erlang/Elixir fits great as control plane or service-to-service messaging layer for distributing services built with flow-based programming</strong></p> <p><p class="image"> <img src="erlang_logo.png" alt="Erlang logo" class="align_right" /> </p> Just back from a one day visit to <a href="http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2015" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erlang User Conference</a> . I find the <a href="http://www.erlang.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Erlang</a> virtual machine fascinating. And with the new <a href="http://elixir-lang.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elixir language</a> built on top of it to fix some of the pain points with <em>Erlang the language</em>, the eco-system has got even more interesting.</p> <p>What I find exciting about Erlang/Elixir and its virtual machine, is its ability to utilize multiple CPU:s on computers, and doing this across multiple computers, in what is commonly referred to as &ldquo;distributed computing&rdquo;. <p class="image"> <img src="fbp_general_interactive_application.png" alt="Flow-based programming example. Image from http://jpaulmorrison.com/fbp/examples.html" class="align_right" /> </p>