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I gotta say I really enjoy these blogs. This and the Go one are really well done. Stylistically I love the look and the art is great too! Then the content is e

I gotta say I really enjoy these blogs. This and the Go one are really well done. Stylistically I love the look and the art is great too! Then the content is enjoyable, and the length of the posts seems just about right too. Where do I subscribe? Also, technically speaking, having shipped Erlang a few times in 3 different products (although all of them were between 2000 and 2010), that I've had the least amount of trouble developing them the REPL experience is (was?) awesome with all the Emacs integration. The ability to basically shell into a remote node and poke around live was extremely handy. People didn't like the binary logging but it seems systemd forced it down their throats anyway later. Also, I provided really easy tools to read the logs using the runtime, so they didn't care much in the long run. It was really easy to write pipe drivers for programs written in Haskell, Python and C++. I even used the Java integration back then. OTP was like a dream come true, and when you're building out an SNMP MIB, MNesia made that so stupidly easy - I couldn't believe how much faster I was going than the folks trying to plug into NetSNMP. I wish I was still working on that project sometimes. It was my favorite.

toast0 5y ago
> People didn't like the binary logging I worked on an Erlang system for nearly eight years, and don't remember any binary logs. Maybe disk_log? but afaik, we only used that for mnesia transaction logs and I don't recall ever needing to look in there.
- butterisgood 5y ago
  Hmmm it’s been a decade so maybe I’m misremembering, but I remember needing to use the REPL or escript to access the logs of my otp services… were they simple files?
  - toast0 5y ago
    At least on my systems, they were just files, yeah. Maybe we did something weird, but I ran yaws from debian for something and log files were just files there too.
  - dnautics 5y ago
    Otp logs, at least in Linux, now "do the right thing". It's pretty recent though (2y? There was a major log system overhaul).
  - ramchip 5y ago
    You may be thinking of the old SASL report browser: https://erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/error_logging.html#report-browser https://erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/error_logging.html#report-b...
    - butterisgood 5y ago
      Yes, thank you! That was it.
cristoperb 5y ago
> Where do I subscribe? It looks like they have an RSS feed: https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/index.xml https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/index.xml

toast0 5y ago

> People didn't like the binary logging I worked on an Erlang system for nearly eight years, and don't remember any binary logs. Maybe disk_log? but afaik, we only used that for mnesia transaction logs and I don't recall ever needing to look in there.

butterisgood 5y ago
Hmmm it’s been a decade so maybe I’m misremembering, but I remember needing to use the REPL or escript to access the logs of my otp services… were they simple files?
- toast0 5y ago
  At least on my systems, they were just files, yeah. Maybe we did something weird, but I ran yaws from debian for something and log files were just files there too.
- dnautics 5y ago
  Otp logs, at least in Linux, now "do the right thing". It's pretty recent though (2y? There was a major log system overhaul).
- ramchip 5y ago
  You may be thinking of the old SASL report browser: https://erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/error_logging.html#report-browser https://erlang.org/doc/apps/sasl/error_logging.html#report-b...
  - butterisgood 5y ago
    Yes, thank you! That was it.

cristoperb 5y ago

> Where do I subscribe? It looks like they have an RSS feed: https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/index.xml https://www.fredrikholmqvist.com/posts/index.xml