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Scalable fault-tolerant upgradable systems Part 1

Joe Armstrong - noreply@blogger.com (Joe Armstrong) - July 19, 2007

let’s talk about servers which are: Scalablefault-tolerant Dynamically Upgradable Q: Are these really the same thing? A: Well not really, but they are very similar. A system that is fault-tolerant can easily be made scalable and easily made so that we can do in-service upgrade.…

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Announcing Erlware

Erlware - martinjlogan@erlware.org (Martin J. Logan) - July 17, 2007

Announcing Erlware! A set of OTP applications for building and distributing Erlang projects. Featuring build system, Sinan, and our package management tool, Faxien. We just released our beta so feel free to jump in and help us ferret out issues!is our flagship build system. It…

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Literal XML in Erlang with parse_transform/2

Massimiliano Mirra - bard - June 26, 2007

One of the things I dislike about Erlang is that it severely impairs bragging opportunities.  Yesterday I wrote a module that allows writing literal XML in the source and have it parsed into Erlang structures at compile time—sort of like E4X minus the manipulation goodies…

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Erlang vs Rails processes FUD

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - June 07, 2007

Wow… I just read a uniquely silly piece of FUD in Is DHH right about concurrency?   Actually, the text is OK, I guess. It wonders whether Erlang’s shared nothing is better than Rails shared nothing approach. After all: Rails allows you to make use…

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There is a world outside of Ruby on Rails

SlideAware - Didier Prophete - May 12, 2007

Here is a typical conversation we get pulled into: Why again did you chose Erlang for a Web2.0 app ? Surely, you must have heard of Rails ? Erlang is such an obscure language. What about database support, documentation, a vibrant community, a developing environment,…

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ProcessOne launches OneTeam Groupchat, a rich web-based group chat solution

ProcessOne - ProcessOne - May 04, 2007

ProcessOne announces today its new dedicated groupchat interface. Working directly from the web in Firefox, the groupchat tool provide the more advanced online groupchat interface. OneTeam groupchat is currently used to cover the French presidential election on Le Chat Citoyen and, along with ejabberd will…

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Using Erlang for your Web 2.0 Application Server

SlideAware - Wolfgang Mathurin - May 04, 2007

In the last post, I gave an overview of the evolution we went through. Today I want to describe in more detail what we have built. There is a lot of ground to cover, so I will focus for now on the front-end of the…

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Metaprogramming: Erlang macros from ground up

Murphees Rant - Werner Schuster - April 26, 2007

So you want to know how a macro system is built from the ground up? No, not the bad kind of macro… I mean a LISPish type of macro. Philip Robinson has a great series explaining how he built different macro implementations in Erlang. There‘s…

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ejabberd exceeds expectations at SIPPhone

ProcessOne - ProcessOne - April 26, 2007

Paris, april 26, 2007 - SIPPhone have been using ejabberd for over three years and it has performed beyond their expectations. ProcessOne Instant Messaging solution is the perfect match to add sophisticated chat features to web sites or VoIP solutions. SIPPhone is a strong advocate…

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From Python to Ruby on Rails to Erlang

SlideAware - Wolfgang Mathurin - April 18, 2007

We started working on SlideAware Workgroups about a year ago. After collecting feedback from Alpha users in November 06, we decided to build the simpler SlideAware Personal which allows users to publish presentation to a URL and conduct live slideshows. SlideAware Personal has been live…

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