So, I have been talking about Erlang a lot. It just seems to work so well with my thought process. And for crying out loud: the syntax is so similar to written language! Clauses? Periods at the end of statements? Semiclons? How can you not love that?
Yes, it is not useful for processing huge amounts of data and crunching numbers. What it is good for, however, is allowing a lot of connections to the application without crashing. This is why Whatsapp was able to have ~500 million users and a staff of only, what was it? Thirty-two?
Since it is multi-core, it is actually faster than node.js. Not as fast as c, but it is often compared to node. So I will just tell you: Erlang is faster. I think the only reason node.js is popular is because there are more people who already know javascript, so what is one more framework? It is easy to implement and learn node if you already know javascript.
So, here's the deal. Erlang is really good at pattern matching and sending messages, and allowing a huge number of connections to the application. Hm...what can that possibly be used for? What is it that people are now talking about? I'll give you one hint: "Refrigerator".
Ping me in the comments if you want to talk about it.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
A week full of snafus...technological and otherwise.
During my interview process, I sometimes wonder if anyone ever really looks at my blog to see what I am up to.
I've had interviewers tell me they did look, which I really appreciate! However, if you are one of the one or two people who do possibly look at this blog, you may have noticed that it -- and my github account have both been very quiet over the last week or so.
I've had a week or so of my attention occupied with first a family emergency, then the untimely death of my hard drive, and the loss of everything I was currently working on, as well as the configuration of my system. Lessons learned: 1) not only should I back up, but I should back up often. 2) Next time, I am going with solid state.
On the upside, I now know how to change out the hard drive on my mac. I was able to upgrade it (with some help) to one terabyte and it runs like new!
Today, I have been getting my system all reconfigured, resetting passwords, downloading software and retrieving licenses...
Tomorrow I should be able to get to work!
I've had interviewers tell me they did look, which I really appreciate! However, if you are one of the one or two people who do possibly look at this blog, you may have noticed that it -- and my github account have both been very quiet over the last week or so.
I've had a week or so of my attention occupied with first a family emergency, then the untimely death of my hard drive, and the loss of everything I was currently working on, as well as the configuration of my system. Lessons learned: 1) not only should I back up, but I should back up often. 2) Next time, I am going with solid state.
On the upside, I now know how to change out the hard drive on my mac. I was able to upgrade it (with some help) to one terabyte and it runs like new!
Today, I have been getting my system all reconfigured, resetting passwords, downloading software and retrieving licenses...
Tomorrow I should be able to get to work!
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