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Introducing Nebulex, a fast, flexible and powerful caching library for Elixir

Caching might be one of the most common and used techniques to improve performance, and in Elixir there are different options available; some of them very good options. However, most of them are focused on local caching, but let’s face it, we seldom deploy our systems in a single node, it’s not a common scenario, specially in the Elixir/Erlang...

Transparent and out-of-box sharding support for ETS tables in Erlang/Elixir.

This blog post is about how to scale-out ETS tables and be able to support high levels of concurrency without worrying about write-locks. Here is where Shards comes in. Shards is an Erlang/Elixir tool compatible with the ETS API, that implements Sharding support on top of ETS totally transparent and out-of-box.

Introduction

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Simple, Distributed and Scalable PubSub in Erlang

This blog post is about how to build high scalable and distributed messaging-based applications using ErlBus, which is a lightweight and simple library to enable what we want here.

Since current release 0.2.0 (in progress), ErlBus was improved substantially. The current PubSub implementation was taken from the original, remarkable, and proven Phoenix PubSub Layer, but...

Testing Distributed Apps with Common Test

This post is about a very common scenario: how to test distributed applications in Erlang? Well, fortunately, Erlang has a remarkable testing framework: Common Test. With CT it is possible to achieve it, and the best part is that it’s extremely easy.

The best way to explain how to test a distributed app with CT is with as...