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Erlang Blog Post: Spot the Difference

Erlang is famous for its introspecting powers. You can get a lot of information about the processes running in your nodes without any external tool. One of the functions that provide that information is erlang:process_info/1,2.

Well, this article is not about it. It’s just about this unintuitive but understandable situation we found with

Manuel Rubio

and Mário Luís Guimarães on the Erlang Slack a long time ago…

https://medium.com/erlang-battleground/spot-the-difference-733a5c2fce77


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