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Reia Brings Scripting to Erlang

As Erlang continues to grow in popularity, people are thinking about how to capture the advantages of Erlang’s VM and shared-nothing architecture but present it in a more mainstream acceptable way. Reia is the latest attempt on that front. Why? Tony Arcieri starts with testing – with a goal taking Reia and creating a declarative [...]

Is there a groundswell of interest in Erlang?

Over at hypothetical labs, the above question was asked – is there an erlang ‘groundswell’? I think Erlang interest is growing. I just started a project using erlang/mnesia instead of mysql as the backend, with ruby as the UI. Erlang will continue to grow and carve out a niche. But it lacks the text processing [...]

Ruby and Erlang can play nice together

InfoQ has a good article on Ruby and Erlang interaction. EngineYard, the most visible and successful rails-focused host, is using erlang in Vertebra, their cloud computing platform. Which, as we’ll cover in a separate post, is an incredibly powerful statement for the growing place for Erlang in cloud computing. Erlectricity is a ruby gem that [...]