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Globally Shared Queues

Nick Gerakines - October 26, 2009

In the Erlang apps that I’ve written, there seems to be a recurring issue. I’ll build an application made to run across several nodes but there could be some sort of shared process or functionality that is only meant to run on a single node.…

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ProcessOne Sea Beyond: What’s on the horizon for real-time communications?

ProcessOne - Mickaël Rémond - October 25, 2009

ProcessOne is excited to organise an event in Paris, on the 17th december 2009, to present, experiment, demonstrate real time communication technologies. The event is dedicated to XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), Jingle VoIP protocol and Wave. The event is organized in two parts:…

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Mozilla Raindrop

Damien Katz - Damien Katz - October 23, 2009

Mozilla has announced the Raindrop project today, a new messaging platform built on top of Apache CouchDB: A central principle behind Raindrop is that messaging should be personal—we want Raindrop to be people-centric both in how we process messages, and in how we can help…

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Playdar reduces codebase by 75% by rewriting music app in Erlang

Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - October 22, 2009

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…

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Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - October 22, 2009

Introducing BERT and BERT-RPC. Justification for inventing a brand new serialisation protocol: Thrift and Protocol Buffers both use IDLs and code generation, XML “is not convertible to a simple unambiguous data structure in any language I’ve ever used” and JSON lacks support for unencoded binary…

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How We Made GitHub Fast

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - October 22, 2009

How We Made GitHub Fast. Detailed overview of the new GitHub architecture. It’s a lot more complicated than I would have expected—lots of moving parts are involved in ensuring they can scale horizontally when they need to. Interesting components include nginx, Unicorn, Rails, DRBD, HAProxy,…

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Announcing ejabberd 2.1.0 RC2

ProcessOne - Jérôme Sautret - October 21, 2009

The second release candidate of ejabberd 2.1 has been published by ProcessOne. ejabberd 2.1.0 RC2 is available as source code as well as binary installers for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows from here: http://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/. The readme text is here: http://www.process-one.net/downloads/ejabberd/2.1.0-rc2/README.txt.   The list of…

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Tweet.IM service now supports OAuth

ProcessOne - Mickaël Rémond - October 20, 2009

Tweet.IM is a service that allows you to use your instant messaging client as a Twitter client. The service has been updated to support Oauth authentication mechanism, which does not require the user to provide their password to the service. Oauth is supported in several…

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ejabberd 2.1.0-rc2—second candidate to final

ejabberd Community Site - badlop - October 20, 2009

Six weeks after rc1, we have another release candidate: ejabberd 2.1.0-rc2. You can download source tarball and binary installers for Linux (32 and 64 bits), Mac OS X (Intel), and Windows. All the new features and improvements are described in the preliminary 2.1.0 release notes. read more

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Yaws 1.85 Released

Steve Vinoski - steve - October 20, 2009

Today Klacke announced Yaws 1.85, mainly a bugfix release. You can find the list of changes and fixes at that link, but one addition in this release I wanted to point out was our new streamcontent_from_pid feature, which allows your server application code to temporarily…

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