I’m a big fan of FLAME, but recently, I’ve been having trouble properly testing it in a local environment. The FLAME.LocalBackend module does not properly mimic a FLAME cluster, and that means that if I want to test something that needs to ensure that the distribution works as expected, I’m stuck either locally testing with a real backend (such as Fly or EC2), or pushing to production and hoping for the best.

Worry no longer! Introducing FlamePeer: https://github.com/probably-not/flame-peer

Brought to you by the same guy who created SafeNIF and FlameEC2 (me), FlamePeer takes the things I learned from both of these libraries and puts them together! It provides a FLAME backend for Erlang :peer nodes, allowing you to properly test FLAME locally, without worrying about whether your code will actually work with real FLAME distribution in production.