[erlang-questions] Ideas on Distributed Programming on single machine

[Harit Himanshu]

Thanks Mark,

I will learn and try to use it, I will let you know if I have any questions

Thanks a lot for your help

On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Mark Nijhof <
mark.nijhof@REDACTED> wrote:

> This is my Dockerfile that can build Erlang:
> https://github.com/MarkNijhof/erlang_docker let me know if you have
> questions
>
> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Harit Himanshu <
> harit.subscriptions@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> Thanks Mark, this sounds like a very good approach to learn about
>> distributed programming. Since I am new in this arena, do you mind sharing
>> resources on how to achieve something you do? That ways I can get some
>> direction on what to Google and take it forward
>>
>> Thanks a lot!
>> + Harit Himanshu
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Mark Nijhof <
>> mark.nijhof@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> I have had 14 different machines running on my 2 year old MacBook Air
>>> (granted they where not doing a whole lot) by just using docker. Each
>>> docker instance has its own IP and name ect. Worked really well. Make sure
>>> that in each docker you run tmux so yo can check both the output and do
>>> things with the machine.
>>>
>>> What I do is put the Dockerfile in a sub folder of the project (because
>>> docker copies all things in the folder the Dockerfile is hosted in into the
>>> container and that is slow) and then map ../ to a mountpoint inside the
>>> docker container. If your host is the same as the docker container then you
>>> can build locally and just restart the process in the containers.
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Christopher Meiklejohn <
>>> cmeiklejohn@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jan 17, 2015, at 8:23 PM, Harit Himanshu <
>>>> harit.subscriptions@REDACTED> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is really dumb question and I am pretty sure that there is limit
>>>> to how much distributed programming could be learnt using single machine(I
>>>> am using Mac in this case).
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am reading through Programming Erlang, Chapter 14, Distributed
>>>>> Programming where Joe talk about how to run Name Server in distributed mode
>>>>> as
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>    1.  I write and test my program in a regular nondistributed Erlang
>>>>>    session. This is what we’ve been doing up to now, so it presents no new
>>>>>    challenges.
>>>>>    2.  I test my program on two different Erlang nodes running on the
>>>>>    same computer.
>>>>>    3.  I test my program on two different Erlang nodes running on two
>>>>>    physically separated computers either in the same local area network or
>>>>>    anywhere on the Internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> You can get pretty far using all of the networking tools provided with
>>>> your operating system to simulate various network conditions.  I do all of
>>>> my daily distributed programming and research using a stock MacBook.
>>>>
>>>> Consider Kyle Kingsbury’s work on Jepsen where he’s able to find bug in
>>>> several major distributed databases.  There are also tools such as ‘tc’
>>>> which can be used to add arbitrary latency between processes.
>>>>
>>>> For what it’s worth, Basho does a significant amount of fault testing
>>>> on a single machine by using fault-injection tools, or by facilities like
>>>> ‘intercepts’ provided by Riak Test.
>>>>
>>>> My advice is this: do everything locally on your machine until you have
>>>> a reason to move to separate infrastructure; it will be easier to develop
>>>> and debug.
>>>>
>>>> - Chris
>>>>
>>>> Christopher Meiklejohn
>>>> Senior Software Engineer
>>>> Basho Technologies, Inc.
>>>> cmeiklejohn@REDACTED
>>>>
>>>>
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