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A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy, NodeJS and Tornadoweb

Roberto Ostinelli - May 09, 2011

As some of you already know, I’m the author of Misultin, an Erlang HTTP lightweight server library. I’m interested in HTTP servers, I spend quite some time trying them out and am always interested in comparing them from different perspectives. Today I wanted to try…

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Erlang lists:keyfind or proplists:get_value?

Roberto Ostinelli - May 20, 2010

Some days ago I quickly went through a post by Sergio Veiga, stating an interesting difference in speed between two Erlang functions which basically have the same functionality of retrieving a value from a list: lists:keyfind/3 and proplists:get_value/2. Intrigued, I decided to perform additional testing,…

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Misultin: erlang and websockets

Roberto Ostinelli - January 20, 2010

Inspired by Joe Armstrong’s post, I’ve recently added websocket support to misultin v0.4, my Erlang library for building fast lightweight HTTP servers. Basically, websockets allow a two-way asynchronous communication between browser and servers, filling the gap that some technologies such as ajax and comet have…

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Misultin library

Roberto Ostinelli - July 27, 2009

Today I’ve released Misultin (pronounced mee-sul-teen), an Erlang library for building fast lightweight HTTP servers. The first benchmarks are quite satisfying, even though there still is work to do. You may find Misultin, released under the New BSD License, on its project page on Google code.

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Boost message passing between Erlang nodes

Roberto Ostinelli - April 08, 2009

Message passing between Erlang nodes is considerably slower than within the same node. This is normal, and is due to the fact that messages sent between nodes are actually copied from the area of the sender to that of the receiver, then sent over from…

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How to install ejabberd 2.0.0 with PostgreSQL support

Roberto Ostinelli - April 28, 2008

I’ve recently been looking for a set of detailed instructions on how to proceed in order to have a working ejabberd 2.0.0 server on a Ubuntu server box, that would in addition use PostgreSQL to store its data instead of the native Mnesia database which…

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