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A History of Erlang

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - June 01, 2008

There is a really nice paper by Joe Armstrong: A History of Erlang. I was able to read it some time ago, but seem to have forgotten to post about it here.Good that Ted Leung on the Air featured it again. Among the comments, there…

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Steve and Joe on RPC

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 30, 2008

Joe Armstrong posted a summary of a recent discussion on the erlang-questions mailing list about the problems of the RPC (Remote Procedure Call) mechanism, where Steve Vinoski explained his opinions.Joe added his opinion as well and explained the Erlang way of handling remote calls.Steve then…

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Erlang by Example - Screencasts with Kevin Smith

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - May 29, 2008

Pragmatic offers a series of commercial videos, “Erlang by Example - Screencasts with Kevin Smith”.It is intended to help learning Erlang by going through an example project, a chat application.So far there are three episodes of about 1/2 hour, priced at $5.

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Announcing Twoorl: an open source ErlyWeb-based Twitter clone

Yariv Sadan - Yariv - May 29, 2008

With the recent brouhaha over Twitter’s scalability problems, I thought, wouldn’t it be fun to write a Twitter clone in Erlang? Last weekend was cold and rainy here in Palo Alto, so I sat down and hacked one, and thus Twoorl was born. It took…

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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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