On 04/09/15 04:58, Neeraj Sharma wrote:
Happy to announce that you can now run a cluster of Erlang/rumprun
unikernel.
This change uses an patch available in Erlang/OTP github repo, which is not
closed - so still bleeding edge like this port as well.
I invested some time trying to bring in the stable c-version of the epmd
(used for distributed Erlang to enable clustering), but since the patch
used in this work is pure-Erlang so integrating was pretty easy. Now that
this is in place my original work can be delayed for a bit later.
Very nice, but ...
Have fun clustering with Erlang/rumprun unikernels, which will allow you to
build applications in new and interesting ways.
... can you expand on what ways those would be? I doubt I am the only
one on this list who is not an Erlang expert or familiar with why you'd
use Erlang. While your writeup (*) explains the nitty-gritty procedures
of how to set up the cluster, it doesn't explain what sort of
applications you would actually run. A high-level paragraph surveying
those applications would really open up to us the potential enabled by
your work.
thanks!
- antti
*)
https://github.com/rumpkernel/rumprun-packages/blob/master/erlang/README.md
