How to use ejabberd as an Elixir application dependency

Starting from version 16.02, ejabberd is packaged as an Hex.pm application: ejabberd on hex.pm. In case of doubt, you can refer to ejabberd official documentation: Embedding ejabberd in an Elixir application It means that you can now build a customized XMPP messaging platform with Elixir on top of ejabberd. You do so by leveraging ejabberd […]

IoT Studio #1: Internet of Things Explained with Video and Slides

Looking for enterprise-grade solutions for Internet of Things? Build your IoT with ProcessOne » Here is the video recording of ProcessOne IoT Studio session #1. At the core of the discussion is an introduction to Internet of Things protocols. Here are the topics / questions that we covered during that session: What are the main […]

XMPP Academy #4: March 29th

Our now popular XMPP online video Q&A session is back for a third session on March 29th. The goal of the XMPP Academy is to help developers get the big picture and get XMPP architecture and design tips from 15-years-experience XMPP experts.

XMPP Radar Newsletter #8

Welcome to the 8th issue of our newsletter. Last month was probably one of the milestones for XMPP and communication systems in general. With IM and IoT on the rise, exciting times are ahead. You can subscribe to the XMPP Radar newsletter and receive it in your inbox at the end of each month. Here […]

Elixir Programming Language Popularity is Growing

One of the nice gems (pun intended) found in The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2016, is the recent growth of Elixir popularity: Elixir: The Erlang-friendly language made a notable jump this time around. The last quarter we surveyed languages, Elixir placed at #60. As of this January, it had jumped to #54. While we […]

ejabberd and the Google Summer of Code 2016

ejabberd project and developers are involved this year again as mentors in Google Summer of Code 2016 initiative, as members of the BEAM Community. This blog post explains what it could mean for you as a student wanting to contribute to our project.

ejabberd 16.02: Happy Leap Day

To celebrate leap day, we are happy to release ejabberd 16.02, which mark huge leap for ejabberd both in terms of features and improvements. In terms of features, we see in this release the culmination of our work in several areas: – Support for flexible offline retrieval, aka XEP-0013. This is a big win for […]

Deep Dive Into ejabberd Pubsub Implementation – ejabberd Workshop #1

In this new talk from ejabberd Advanced Erlang Workshop, Christophe Romain goes into the details of ejabberd Pubsub implementation. He explains the Pubsub plugin systems and how to leverage it to optimize ejabberd PubSub for your own use cases. This talk will teach you how to get more performance and scalability from your Pubsub implementation. […]

XMPP Radar Newsletter #7

Welcome to the 7th issue of our newsletter. Last month was pretty interesting, with several platform news and longform analysis. You can subscribe to the XMPP Radar newsletter and receive it in your inbox at the end of each month. Here are the links we found interesting in January: ejabberd massive scalability: 1 node — […]

ejabberd massive scalability: single node with 2+ million concurrent users

How Far Can You Push ejabberd? From our experience, we all get the idea that ejabberd has massive scalability. However, we wanted to provide benchmark results and hard figures to demonstrate our outstanding performance level and give a baseline about what to expect in simple cases. That’s how we ended up with the challenge of […]

Elixir Paris #5: OTP architecture, Macros and Docker Packaging Docker

Elixir Paris Meetup #5 happened on January 12th. We have gathered a team of faithful and enthusiastic developers, passionate about programming languages. Mickaël Rémond introduced a new project that nicely demonstrates various programming approaches in Elixir. FastTS project (for Fast Time Series) is the result of the discovery of Riemann monitoring tools during Paris.ex meetup […]

ejabberd 16.01

This ‘happy new year’ release of ejabberd is the culmination of one year of major improvements. This is yet another milestone for ejabberd, being the starting point of a new phase of cleanup and optimisations for your favourite server. This release contains security fix for possible server spoofing with brute force attack on the random […]