Erlang is renowned for its remarkable fault tolerance and high concurrency. Erlang's scheduler efficiently handles many lightweight processes. The scheduler plays a crucial role in managing processes, concurrency, and system resources, efficiently coordinating these elements to help Erlang maintain fault tolerance and support high levels of concurrency in its applications. This post will dissect some of the scheduler's key components and shed light on how it works internally. Let's get started!

This is the third in a series. Read Part 1 and Part 2. “2001: A Space Odyssey” doesn’t spend time on the training contexts of its antagonist, HAL 9000. The only clues we get are upon its “death,” where it regresses back to its earliest lessons, like singing “Daisy Bell” as it winds down for the last time, suggesting it started with the very basics and grew more complex only with time and practice.

For independent software vendors (ISVs), creating unique differentiators and value increasingly entails adopting the latest technologies to enhance your product experience, especially in an ever-evolving competitive landscape with multiple new tech solutions. AI analytics is the latest emerging field in business intelligence (BI) solutions that offers new sophisticated capabilities for the user experience (UX) of your product’s analytics component.

Whether you’re a leader, manager, or individual contributor, chances are you need to keep a close eye on a handful of key metrics. If you’re the Sales leader, it might be KPIs like Leads, SQLs, and Close Rate. If you’re running paid ads, it might be Total Ad Spend or Cost Per Conversion. Of course, you can view these metrics on dashboards and get updates through automated reports.

The agile development landscape needs strong and effective automated testing solutions to assure the quality of online applications. Choosing the correct test automation framework is critical for efficient testing cycles. While Selenium remains a popular standard, Playwright has evolved as a strong competitor because of its architecture and ability to handle the intricacies of modern online applications.

Imagine you want to leave a note for someone. You write the message on a piece of paper and put it in an envelope. The envelope around your note keeps the message contained and separate from other things. It's the same idea with terminating string literals. A string literal is like the note you wrote, while terminating it is like sealing the envelope. Here's an example: The phrase "Hello, world!" is the string literal, while the double quotation marks tell the computer where the string begins and ends.

Efficient and consistent REST API naming conventions can streamline your development process and make navigating your API easier for developers. This guide will look at what’s needed for creating intuitive and consistent endpoint names, REST API naming conventions and best practices, and how to avoid common errors. Let’s begin by taking a quick refresher on some of the basics of REST API endpoints.

Is your startup operating with no QA team and trying to figure out your options for improving software quality? Perhaps you’re proactively thinking about your QA process before quality becomes a problem. Our maybe quality issues have forced you to finally address your QA process (or lack thereof). Either way, end-to-end (e2e) automated software testing is always part of the answer.

Hakkoda’s 2024 State of Data report found misalignment between data leaders on AI readiness.