37 Signals, creators of Rails, embrace Erlang, where it makes sense
Erlang Inside - Chad DePue - May 14, 2009You may be familiar with 37 Signals, the guys who brought us Ruby on Rails, Campfire, Basecamp, among other products. Mark makes a wonderful case for using the right tool for the job in this “Nuts & Bolts” post, on how the Campfire internals work better with Erlang.
Campfire is a web based messaging/chatroom system that used a C-based polling system to determine if messages needed to be sent to connected browsers. The team replaced 240 separate C processes with 3 Erlang processes, and they explain how and why here.
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