This Week In Erlang Oct 14

Welcome to another “This week in Erlang” newsletter! We are one day behind schedule but that should be okay. Right?

Articles and Blog posts

Robert Virding (@rvirding) has pushed a lot of updates to luerl . Checkout the Github page or the website.

A new version of epgsql was released. Checkout the details: https://github.com/epgsql/epgsql/releases/tag/3.4.0

OTP 20.1.2 was released with a very important bug fix. Checkout the announcement here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/erlang-programming/-7a7Jl30WK4

Library of the week

This week we have a suggestion by Fred Hèbert (@mononcqc). eministat by Jesper L. Andersen (@jlouis666) is a statistical comparison library. You can use it to compare your benchmark datasets and find out useful information:

https://github.com/jlouis/eministat

Project of the week

HolidayPing , suggested by @warianoguerra, is a webapp that can be used to notify all of your important contacts on your time off dates. Backend is done in Erlang and the frontend is done in ClojureScript. We need more projects like this!

https://holidayping.lambdaclass.com/

Events and Meetups

Don’t forget that Codemesh is happening soon and tickets are selling out! Early bird tickets are closing on Oct 17th and you can also get group discounts. Check out all the info here: http://www.codemesh.io/#home

Portland Erlang & Elixir meetup is happening on Oct 18th! https://www.meetup.com/Portland-Erlang-Elixir-User-Group/events/243874734/

Employment

Helium is looking for Erlang/Rust engineers: https://angel.co/helium-2/jobs/281695-software-engineer

Erlang Solutions is hiring Erlang developers: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/careers/careers.html

Announcements