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.
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
Interview with Tony Arcieri on Reia and Erlang, Part II
For part I, click here. Where is Reia in the development cycle? When will it be Beta/Production Ready? You can consider it to be in an “early alpha” stage at this point. There are a number of open tickets for known issues on our ticket tracker. While there are a small number of tests many [...]
BeeBole creates a sample Mochiweb Erlang Web Application with Video Tutorial
BeeBole, creators of an online expense tracking application for small business, has a zipped up sample Erlang MochiKit web application that just may be the easiest way to experiment with Erlang and the web. The application is a JSON-driven sticky pad in a browser. Once you’ve experimented with that, take a look at the tutorial [...]
Interview with Reia Creator Tony Arcieri on Erlang, Reia, Python, and Rails
We interrupt the recent holiday related posting haitus with an interview with Tony Arcieri, creator of Reia. Tony agreed to answer some questions about Reia. Tony has a lot more information on Reia in the FAQ, where he covers reasons for some of the design decisions of the language. He can be reached at his [...]