In the interest of publishing more often and covering smaller topics, lets review web-server-agnostic middleware for Erlang.
The current standard for Erlang web application middleware is EWGI, inspired by Python’s PEP 333 and providing similar functionality as Ruby’s Rack. All major Erlang web servers support EWGI, and most web frameworks.
Created by Rusty Klophaus, SimpleBridge [...]
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The State of Erlang Web Middleware – EWGI and SimpleBridge
37 Signals, creators of Rails, embrace Erlang, where it makes sense
You may be familiar with 37 Signals, the guys who brought us Ruby on Rails, Campfire, Basecamp, among other products. Mark makes a wonderful case for using the right tool for the job in this “Nuts & Bolts” post, on how the Campfire internals work better with Erlang.
Campfire is a web based messaging/chatroom system that [...]
2009 Erlang Factory is Biggest Gathering of Erlang Expertise outside of Sweden
Next monday the Erlang Factory conference starts in San Francisco. If you’re in the Bay Area and can make a last minute change of plans, it looks to be a milestone conference for the Erlang community.
The University is the 27th – 29th, with the Conference from the 30th-1st. Speakers include Robert Virding, one of the [...]
BeepBeep Is Another New Erlang Framework
Happy New Year! It’s been a great 2008 for Erlang, which we’ll cover in our 2008 Retrospective in another post later this week. For today, it’s a new, simple web framework for Erlang called BeepBeep. Written by Dave Bryson, it uses MochiWeb, which most Erlang Web developers are familiar with, and ErlyDTL, which is an [...]
5 Reasons to use Erlang in a cloud, or on a sunny day
John Bender has a good post on reasons to use Erlang in building a cloud computing application. Though the points aren’t specific to cloud computing it’s a good concise summary of some of Erlang’s benefits.