Erlang distribution
EPMD, the handshake, cookies, the wire format. What actually happens when two nodes connect. Act 1.
libcluster
Strategies for answering “who else is out there?” — Gossip, DNS, Kubernetes, Epmd. Act 1.
NETZlive in production
Service registration, versioned RPC contracts, error boundaries, two-tier messaging. Act 2.
Trade-offs
The dependency tax, the boilerplate, and when clustering is the wrong answer. Act 3.
Why this exists
Section titled “Why this exists”A 35-minute talk uses a fraction of what goes into it. This site keeps the rest: the sources read, the experiments run, the claims checked against OTP source, and the things that turned out to be wrong. It is the place to come back to when a slide needs a fact, or when someone in the Q&A asks the question the slide skipped.
What it is not
Section titled “What it is not”Not the talk itself — the outline and abstract live in the parent directory
(talk-outline.md, abstract.md). Not a tutorial. Pages here exist to back claims the
talk makes, so every page should be traceable to a part of the talk or deleted.