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I came the other way around and tried some Erlang before settling on Julia, but if I your focus is on scheduling of data science tasks I know why you used elixi

by shele 8y ago

I came the other way around and tried some Erlang before settling on Julia, but if I your focus is on scheduling of data science tasks I know why you used elixir.

cercatrova 8y ago
With Elixir, can I set up a queue of separate programs written in other languages (Python/TensorFlow) such that when one task is finished, another can be started right away, or have a programmatic schedule? Essentially, can Elixir act as the scheduler for various tasks, or even spin up AWS instances through its scheduling?
- shele 8y ago
  You should ask the poster above me.
  - cercatrova 8y ago
    Indeed I shall
dnautics 8y ago
you definitely don't want to be using a BEAM language for numeric computation. On the other hand, if you try to write a web application in Julia, you have no uptime guarantees. I think that Elixir/Julia would make a really sweet combination for certain things, if Julia could easily talk to BEAM instances by presenting itself as BEAM node (to do RPCs from Elixir to Julia).
- shele 8y ago
  Yeah, I can imagine. That would maybe also not be too difficult as Julia apparently could ccall the erl_interface c-library http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erl_interface/ei_users_guide.html http://erlang.org/doc/apps/erl_interface/ei_users_guide.html
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