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willyk | 7 years ago | on: Phoenix 1.4.0 released

Big thanks and props to the team on this, very exciting! Looking forward to pitching in on the guides or other areas where some contrib help may be needed.

willyk | 8 years ago | on: Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

If you looking into OTP, you'll see there's quite a but more and to some extent it does things differently than K8 (e.g., Observer, fault tolerance, concurrency and vertical/horizontal scaling w/message passing, etc.). See: https://www.manning.com/books/the-little-elixir-and-otp-guid...

willyk | 8 years ago | on: Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

The two options you mention are the ones I see used most often (with React & Vue being 3rd/4th), but I wouldn't say any of those are "frontend equivalents".

willyk | 8 years ago | on: Elixir on Google Cloud Platform and App Engine

Agreed, also just want to say thanks, this is awesome news. Much appreciated!

willyk | 8 years ago | on: The Joy of Erlang; Or, How to Ride a Toruk (2011)

Out of curiosity sake, Do you mind sharing what UK company you're with?

willyk | 8 years ago | on: Cowboy 2.0 released

whohoo! thanks for all your hard work on this!

willyk | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB Postmortem

I'm also interested to hear what the future, if any, looks like for RethinkDB. Would also be very curious to explore what can be done regarding the IP/licensing as part of that future (agree with the concerns mentioned here).

willyk | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB Postmortem

Thanks to Salve for writing an incredible retrospective. One thing I'd be curious to hear is whether the RethinkDB team feels they could have create the tool and potentially the company without taking on venture capital/investors (similar to PostgresSQL, which I don't think has taken on vc).

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Atlassian acquires Trello for $425M

that was my understanding as well, although there has occasionally been stuff written that suggested more too.

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Operational transform for realtime collaborative editing in JS/Flow

Thanks for the thoughtful post. What do you see as the next best alternative approach to OT?

willyk | 9 years ago | on: The Road to 2M Websocket Connections in Phoenix (2015)

These companies are: http://bleacherreport.com/ https://www.brightcove.com/en/ http://cargosense.com/ https://www.inverse.com/ Apple has listed it in the stack in some job descriptions over the last year

willyk | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB needs a new home

I wish there was a way I could upvote this a lot more than once

willyk | 9 years ago | on: RethinkDB needs a new home

Amen to that!!

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Plottable.js – Flexible, interactive charts for the web

Agreed that it's a framework, but it's not necessarily that much work, it really depends on what you're trying to do. Sometimes its easier just to use a library if it offers what you needs, other times its easier to use D3 directly -- knowing when to make that call is important.

There a good O'Reilly book on D3 by Scott Murray, the ebook version of which is free that's a great primer:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/index.ht...

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: A self-hosted alternative to Trello, Basecamp, and Freshbooks

seems odd to suggest Colony is the new hotness, when there isn't a product available yet -- looks like Sep is the target date (https://blog.colony.io/an-update-on-colony-july-2016-7e2004e...)

willyk | 9 years ago | on: GitMonitor on Elixir

> And I'm kinda avoiding that on a quad core CPU your > C program is really going to only use one core out > of the box while elixir will use all four.)

I think that's a pretty major factor to avoid -- multicore processors are the immediate/commercial foreseeable future of CPUs, so its not inconsequential that Erlang/Elixir allow you to be able to use cheap processes in order take full advantage of this

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Why you should never use MongoDB (2013)

RethinkDB is targeted at soft real time applications which have a need to update data across many clients. Additionally, although its a schemaless document DB, it offers functionality similar to joins/relational queries. This is a good presentation on RethinkDB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee1v_SuECRk

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

same here!!

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

totally agree, lots of activity/interest in NYC

willyk | 9 years ago | on: Erlang/OTP 19.0 has been released

For anyone who's interested, we have some relevant community-run, regional conferences coming up in NYC next month:

- Erlang Camp (Sat Jul 16), http://erlang.camp/

- Elixir Camp (Jul 15-17), http://elixircamp.io/

- Phoenix Camp (Jul 15-17), http://nyc.phoenix.camp

- Nerves Camp (Sun Jul 17), http://nerves.camp/

We've got a good mix of speakers coming together and the conference open to all (with suggested donation pricing for tickets).

We also still have a few session slots open if anyone wants to present (particularly around Erlang/OTP).