Erlang Solutions: Naming your Daemons
Within Unix systems, a daemon is a long-running background process which does not directly interact with users. Many similar processes exist within a BEAM application. At times it makes sense to name them, allowing sending messages without requiring the knowledge of their process identifier (aka PID). There are several benefits to naming processes, these include:
- Organised processes: using a descriptive and meaningful name organises the processes in the system. It cla … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: Technical debt and HR – what do they have in common?
At first glance, it may sound absurd. Here we have technical debt, a purely engineering problem, as technical as it can get, and another area, HR, dealing with psychology and emotions, put into one sentence. Is it possible that they are closely related? Let’s take it apart and see.
What is technical debt, anyway? A tongue-in-cheek definition is that it is code written by someo … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs
The ejabberd Docs website did just get a major rework: new content management system, reorganized navigation, improved markdown, and several improvements!
Brief documentation timelineejabberd started in November 2002 (see a timeline in the ejabberd turns 20 bl … ⌘ Read more
ProcessOne: ejabberd Docs now using MkDocs
The ejabberd Docs website did just get a major rework: new content management system, reorganized navigation, improved markdown, and several improvements!
ejabberd started in November 2002 (see a timeline in the ejabberd turns 20 blog post). And the first documentation was published in January 2003, using LaTeX, see [Ejabberd Installation and Op … ⌘ Read more