So Saint Patrick,

Maybe you can help me where Saint Nick and Cupid failed. Still chasing job prospects, though one kind soul in YUL inquired, but we weren't a fit.

So maybe St. Paddy you could share some luck of the Irish with me or lead me to a pot of gold field of employers .

I know a variety of languages like #English, #French, #C, #Erlang, #Forth, #C#, #Java, #NodeJS, and poking at #Go. Have a history (if you ask) of experience that can bedazzle when applied.

So once more I launch yet another letter into the #fediverse seeking work.

http://snert.com/resume/
#Ottawa #Canada

PS. Won't say no to pot of gold.

#FedHire #GetFediHired #JobSeeker

If I wrote my web app in Elixir, would I be able to get rid of #Nginx and just use some Elixir framework to do TLS termination, load balancing, and hot code reloading whenever I needed to change up the routes? Can this be done across numerous compute nodes fairly easily?

Follow-up question: how difficult is it to do a database migration for an Elixir application with hot code reloading?

The reason I ask is because is because I (probably unwisely) asked an LLM chatbot (Gemini) this question and it said typically people put their Elixir programs behind an Nginx load balancer so you can reboot the Elixir application if necessary. I asked it why anyone would do this since the main benefit of using the BEAM VM and Erlang/Elixir it is to have hot code reloading and no downtime. The chatbot started spouting off very confused and self-contradictory answers, so I am pretty sure it was just lying.

But I am no expert on Elixir, so now I want to ask a human who knows better than me, the way we all used to do before LLMs were invented.

#Tech #Software #ElixirLang #ErlangOTP #FullStack #WebDev #WebAppDev #AskFedi

Started to get back into Erlang yesterday, to to build a little something with MQTT. I had fun, but making stuff OTP-compatible was tough for me. The docs are there, but they are dense. Still wrapping my head around a lot of things.

What are good resources for learning how to build IoT-adjacent services with Erlang/OTP?
I mainly feed of Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good (https://learnyousomeerlang.com/), The Erlang Programming Language by Joe himself, and the recently discovered Let Erlang Crash (https://cloudstreet-dev.github.io/Let-Erlang-Crash/), as well as the reference documentation on https://erlang.org/docs/.

#Erlang