Topic

elixir

A collection of 2 issues

Cryptography in Elixir using Rustler

I recently started learning Rust and I didn't wait long to try writing a NIF library for Elixir. My toy project block_keys is using a C NIF for the libsecp256k1 library used to create Bitcoin (and similar) PKI and also sign transactions. Parity wrote a pure Rust implementation of

Distributed consensus with Raft

When working with distributed systems so many of the problems we're trying to solve boil down to managing state across multiple nodes. Whether it's replicating databases, mirroring message queues or achieving consensus in a blockchain network, the crux of the problem is keeping a distributed state machine in sync. Replication