Good write up by Inaka’s Fernando Benavides on Scaling Erlang Web Applications; follow along as he takes a sample app from 1000 to 100,000 concurrent users.
Posts under ‘Erlang in the Wild’
Spawnfest 2011 in 15 days – “Rails Rumble” of the Erlang world – 48 hour contest to make the best Erlang powered app
Spawnfest is the annual 48 hour Erlang development competition where you can compete against other developers in building the best, most breathtaking Erlang application, library or anything you like! It’s July 9th and 10th anywhere in the world. They say, “We hope Spawnfest will help bring the Erlang developer community together and get people interested [...]
Andrew Thompson on optimizing egitd (Erlang’s git daemon, written by github)
Here’s a gripping series on optimizing egitd by using OTP best practices.
Webmachine, ErlyDTL and Riak – Part 1
Oliver Reeves at buffered.io has a good overview of using webmachine with Riak.
SyncPad has an interesting experience building a simple node.js server and then rewriting that server in Erlang
Roder over at SyncPad built his app with node.js and then due to performance problems rewrote it in Erlang.
Russia’s numerous contributions to the Erlang community – Dmitrii Dimandt, creator of erlanger.ru
Erlang Inside is sponsored by Inaka Networks, Erlang consultants combining experience with Telecom to build high performance web applications. This week, Erlang Inside has a guest post from Dmitrii Dimandt, a Russian developer and creator of the site erlanger.ru. I’d like to talk about the Russian Erlang community and what it’s doing with Erlang. In [...]
Spanish Language Erlang List
If you’re looking for Spanish language group to discuss Erlang, Mariano Guerra recently started “ErlAr“, a mailing list for all things Erlang, but in Castellano. Mariano is the author of Efene, a Javascript-syntax language that compiles to Erlang bytecode. I’m planning an interview with Mariano on Efene soon. There is a small but growing group [...]
Zotonic rethinks the CMS with Erlang
A chat with Marc Worrell, Lead Architect of Zotonic – a new Content Management System written entirely in Erlang.
Playdar reduces codebase by 75% by rewriting music app in Erlang
Playdar, an open-source ‘music content resolver service’ that finds music on your local computers or your friends’ computers, then streams that music to you, rewrote the code in Erlang. From the original C++ codebase, Richard Jones reduced the lines of code by 75% – from 8000 to 2000 lines of code… The code is on [...]