Erlang/OTP 24 was released, with the JIT compiler probably being the most anticipated feature.

In this post, I'll cover a few things such as hype phases and how this related to Erlang, the ladder of ideas within the language and how that can impact adoption, what changed in my ten years here, and I'll finish up with what I think Erlang still has to bring to the programming community at large.

Simple, reliable messaging. It takes a lot to support this statement. For 10 years WhatsApp demonstrated unprecedented reliability and availability, serving over 1.5B users. There is absolutely no way to reproduce interactions between all of them, within the cluster spanning over 10,000 nodes and multiple data centers. Investigations must be done on a live system without disturbing connected users. If there are repairs needed, it has to be done on the fly.

Create amazing Internet of Things designs without soldering or dropping down to C. The GRiSP project makes building internet-connected hardware devices easier with Erlang!

• Real bare-metal Erlang virtual machine
• Hard real-time event handling, using open source code
• Digilent Pmod™ compatible connectors for sensors and actuators

Today we are going to talk about logs, quantitative metrics, and how to observe them in order to increase the team reaction rate and reduce the system waiting time in case of an incident.

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