Posts Tagged ‘erlang’

Mustache is an Erlang port of the Ruby framework of the same name, originally written by Chris Wanstrath, one of the founders of GitHub. A powerful feature of this type of framework is the ability to write a ‘template’ that you could use in a Rails application and then reuse in an Erlang application with [...]

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 [...]

Tim over at timyang.net has an interesting ‘hello world’ web server test between Erlang, Go, Java, and C. The C code is an nginx plugin, Java uses the MINA framework; Erlang and Go are small standalone apps. Java ‘won’, with Erlang in second place. Interesting article and the first I’ve seen comparing Go and 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 [...]

Dale Harvey’s erldocs.com takes a lot of the pain out of the old Erlang documentation

Welcome to the second of the erlang:lists series where we list some interesting happenings in the world of Erlang.
erlang:lists(NewErlangIRC) – Kevin Smith just launched a new IRC channel – #erlang-otp. Have an Erlang question you need answered quick? Wishing you had a friendly place to hang out online with other Erlangers?  Tired of either the [...]

In the spirit of netflix, but 1000 times less lucrative, be the first to improve an Erlang dev’s unicast code and receive cash…

For the past two years in the Erlang community, when someone says “I used The Book to learn Erlang,” it was an unequivocal reference to Joe Armstrong’s book by The Pragmatic Programmers. It has been the guide to learning Erlang, responsible for inducting a whole new generation of developers to the language.
Yet, now that Erlang [...]

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 [...]

Great summary of Erlang Factory San Francisco. Happy to say it sounds like a milestone for the Erlang community… Kevin’s summary “Erlang Factory rocked and you should’ve been there.” – Link