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InfoQ: Erlang - software for a concurrent world

Video - Joe Armstrong - May 27, 2008

This is a video presentation by Joe Armstrong, one of the inventor of Erlang. Summary How do you program a multicore computer? Easy - do it in Erlang. Erlang is a concurrent functional programming language designed for programming fault-tolerant systems. With share-nothing semantics and pure…

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The Road we didn’t go down

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - May 26, 2008

I’ve been following an interesting discussion on the Erlang mailing list where Steve Vinoski and friends have been telling us what’s wrong with RPC. The discussion started on 22 May, the general topic of conversation was the announcement that facebook had deployed a chat server…

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ejabberd 2.0.1 (rereleased) - Bugfixes, R12, PubSub, registration limit

ejabberd Community Site - badlop - May 22, 2008

Update: the original release didn’t include all the files. Make sure to download a file that includes the suffix “_2”: ejabberd-2.0.1_2 source package does not include the correct files. It will be fixed today and I’ll update this newspost. ejabberd 2.0.1 revision has been released.…

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Erlang vs. Scala

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 19, 2008

In my time wasting activities on geeky social news sites, I’ve been seeing more and more articles about Scala. The main reasons I became interested in Scala are 1) Scala is an OO/FP hybrid, and I think that any attempt to introduce more FP concepts…

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More Threads, More Trouble?

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 18, 2008

My Google Alert on Erlang spew out this article: More Threads, More Trouble?It starts with the observation that we move from increasing CPU clock speed to an increasing number of cores and then continues with a brief overview of prominent approaches to add concurrency to…

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Facebook Chat

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 18, 2008

Found at Yariv’s Blog: Facebook Chat is an article about the technology behind the Facebook social network.They have a large web application with up to 70 Million users and want to provide them with presence information (like: “I am online”, “I am busy”, “I am…

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Erlang article in German iX Magazine

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 17, 2008

German computer magazine iX issue 06/2008 features an article about Erlang.The title is “Neben- und miteinander - Parallele Anwendungen entwickeln mit Erlang/OTP” by Frank Müller. He writes about it here.

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Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - May 15, 2008

Engineering @ Facebook: Facebook Chat. The new Facebook Chat uses Comet (long polling with a hidden iframe) against a custom web / chat server written in Erlang, designed to handle a launch to all 70 million users at once. It was tested using a “dark…

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New Facebook Chat Feature Scales to 70 Million Users Using Erlang

High Scalability - Todd Hoff - May 15, 2008

I’ve done some XMPP development so when I read Facebook was making a Jabber chat client I was really curious how they would make it work. While core XMPP is straightforward, a number of protocol extensions like discovery, forms, chat states, pubsub, multi user chat,…

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Is Facebook running one of the world’€™s biggest Erlang clusters?

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 15, 2008

I just read on the Facebook engineering blog this post describing how Facebook used Erlang to scale Facebook Chat to 70 million active users overnight. WOW. This announcement should remove any doubts that Erlang is *the* platform for building scalable realtime (aka Comet) applications.

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