Cisco's Network Config Engine Is Secretly Erlang
Cisco NSO and ConfD run their core on Erlang. Why the network-automation world never noticed, and where the BEAM actually fits this domain.
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Elixir's Concurrency Model Is the One You Actually Want
async/await and goroutines solve scheduling. The BEAM solves failure. Why most concurrency pain is actually failure-isolation pain — and only the actor model plus supervision trees fix it.
The Ruby to Elixir Migration That Cut Our Service Footprint From Ten to Six
We started with ten Ruby and Elixir services serving real-time messaging for 450K students across 900+ universities. Two years later we had six, fully Elixir, and on-call alerts had halved. The migration order, the patterns we leaned on, and what I'd do differently today.