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 [...]
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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.
Interview with Rusty Klophaus on the Nitrogen Erlang Web Framework
Nitrogen is the soon to be released Erlang framework for web development that uses an event based programming model similar to ASP.NET. Rusty Klophaus, the creator of the framework, agreed to answer some questions about Nitrogen and how he got started in the Erlang community. This is the first in our series of Q&A sessions [...]