hello#

My name is Łukasz Niemier, but I am mostly using Hauleth over the internet.

I am part of the Erlang Ecosystem Foundation Observability WG where we are trying to improve observability features in Erlang ecosystem.

I am open for hire. If you want to inquiry me about my services then contact me at lukasz@niemier.pl.

blog

Who Watches Watchmen? - Part 2

:: :: #beam #systemd
Continuation of travel into making systemd to work for us, not against us. This time we will talk about socket activation and how to make our application run only when we need it to run.

How much memory is needed to run 1M Erlang processes?

:: :: #beam #performance
How to not write benchmarks

Who Watches Watchmen? - Part 1

:: :: #beam #systemd
A lot of application use systems like Kubernetes for their deployment. In my humble opinion it is often overkill as system, that offers most of the stuff such thing provide, is already present in your OS. In this article I will try to present how to utilise the most popular system supervisor from Elixir applications.

Log all the things

:: :: #beam #observability

In Elixir 1.11 landed set of new features that allows for more powerful logging by utilising Erlang's logger features. Here I will try to describe new possibilities and how You can use them to improve your logs.

Treachery of Representation

:: :: #culture
Representation is not data - something that developers (and not only them) often forgot when working with different data.

Stop Spreading Crap at My `$HOME`

:: :: #culture

Writing Vim Plugin

:: :: #vim
Article about writing Vim plugins, but not about writing Vim plugins. It is how to concieve plugin, how to go from an idea to the full fledged plugin.

Let's talk about `application/0`

:: :: #beam
Have you ever thought about that one simple function in your `mix.exs`? It comes out as quite powerful and useful place for storing configuration and post-launch scripts.

Common Test for Elixir developers

:: :: #beam #testing

Here be (owned) books

:: :: #rust
Simple introduction to Rust's ownership system

Dumb Elixir VIsual (and iMproved) editor

:: :: #beam #vim
How I have configured Vim for working with Elixir and Erlang projects