CODE SYNCLukas Larsson
Erlang VM core committer
Lukas first came in contact with Erlang 2004 while studying in Göteborg. He has been working with Erlang at Erlang Solutions for about 10 years in many different industries. For the last 8 years, he's been a consultant with the Erlang/OTP team at Ericsson AB, mainly working on the development of the Erlang VM.
Upcoming conferences:
Code BEAM SF 2019
Process signals in OTP 21
In the lastest Erlang/OTP release all process interactions has been rebuilt from the bottom. This talk will describe the changes made, the performance tradeoffs and important semantics of Erlang's message passing.
Lukas will go through how all process signals worked before OTP 21, describe their shortcomings and present how it is implemented in OTP 21 to deal with the inherent scalability problems of the old solution.
OBJECTIVES
To give the audience a better understanding of how all process interaction is done in the Erlang run-time system.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Anybody that is interested to look under the hood of the Erlang run-time system.