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The HappiHacking Blog

Essays and technical notes on BEAM, systems, architecture, software work, and engineering judgment

The HappiHacking Blog

The blog collects essays, technical notes, course material, and reflections on software work. The strongest posts are grounded in BEAM, runtime behavior, systems design, and production experience.

Recent Highlights

BEAM & Erlang Deep Dives

  • "Why I Wrote The BEAM Book": The journey behind the runtime reference
  • "30 Years On and In the BEAM": Lessons from three decades of Erlang
  • "The Monolith vs Microservices": When to choose what, based on real experience

Developer Productivity

  • "The AI Duck": Using AI as a rubber duck debugging partner
  • "Dev Containers Done Right": Reproducible development environments
  • "Team Performance Metrics": What to measure and what to ignore

Technical Deep Dives

  • "RabbitMQ at Scale": Lessons from processing billions of messages
  • "Erlang for IoT": Building reliable embedded systems
  • "Neural Networks in Elixir": ML on the BEAM

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What People Are Saying

Thank you for writing this book! I really wanted this a few years ago as I was debugging production Elixir, when existing learning sources were pretty dense and dry (or too simple and shallow).

- bicx, Hacker News
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