Monthly Archives: September 2010

elockd [more] publicly available

I’d call this an 0.5 release. It’s now in the code repo that we at Automattic use to put out little open source tools. I’ve fixed several bugs with the code since the first time that I posted about it. It can handle at least 2k active connections, and at least 100k shared and exclusive [...]

video of a simple stress test of elockd

in case anyone is curious… elockd-in-action

elockd

I’ve been working on an erlang port of my php locking daemon in erlang (which is a more appropriate language for this kind of thing.) And I have it all tricked out (ok partially tricked out but hey it’s my first real erlang project and i’ve only spent 2 afternoons on it.) The api is [...]

want

http://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Geeks-Science-Great-Hacks/dp/0596805888