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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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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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Parallel Quicksort in Erlang - Part II

21st Century Code Works - Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Benjamin Nortier) - May 07, 2008

In my previous post, Jaksa pointed out that there’s a problem, in that although there may be multiple processes, they will be blocked and waiting (sequencially) for the first peval to complete, then the second peval, etc. Which will result in a pseudo-parallel depth-first quicksort,…

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Parallel Quicksort in Erlang

21st Century Code Works - Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Benjamin Nortier) - April 24, 2008

Jaksa is doing some posts on parallel graph algorithm in Java using fork/join, and he mentions quicksort:  “The equivalent of the hello world for parallel languages is the quicksort algorithm”Now I’m tempted to say something like “Oh yea? You know how many lines of code…

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Chaos on Erlang

Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Dein Bär) - April 12, 2008

From upper left to lower right: logo Chaosradio, a diagram on discordianism, a spoofed Trans Europ Express train (TEE) and the Chaosknoten (chaos knot) which is a spoof of the old German cable network logo (it features a letter K for Kabel)More Erlang coverage from…

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Getting started with distributed Erlang - Mnesia table relocation

21st Century Code Works - Best of Erlang - noreply@blogger.com (Benjamin Nortier) - April 10, 2008

Mnesia is a distributed database that forms part of the Erlang release. One of the features that I think is potentially powerful, is transparent table relocation across machines. With Mnesia, you can replicate tables to any nodes you wish in your network, and Mnesiatakes care…

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