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In Response to “What Sucks About Erlang”

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - March 11, 2008

In Response to “What Sucks About Erlangâ€�?. Yariv Sadan responds to Damien’s criticism.

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What Sucks About Erlang

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - March 11, 2008

What Sucks About Erlang. Damien Katz shares his greatest frustrations from working with Erlang on CouchDB.

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What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - December 14, 2007

What You Need To Know About Amazon SimpleDB. Amazon have finally launched the database component of their web service suite. It fits a bunch of current trends: key/value pairs, schemaless, built on top of Erlang. “Eventual consistencyâ€�? is an interesting characteristic.

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ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - December 10, 2007

ErlyWeb vs. Ruby on Rails EC2 Performance Showdown. ErlyWeb’s peak response rate beats Rails by 47x, albeit with a hugely simplified benchmark. More interesting than the results is the idea of using EC2 for benchmarking on identical simulated hardware.

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CouchDB Roundup

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - December 06, 2007

CouchDB Roundup. The CouchDB project is interested in contributions from people who can write a large file driver for Erlang, help figure out the CouchDB security model and build scripts to help benchmark performance, scalability and reliability.

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mochiweb - another faster web server

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - November 10, 2007

mochiweb—another faster web server. Bob Ippolito’s latest project: a high performance Erlang web server.

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CouchDB “Joins”

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - October 25, 2007

CouchDB “Joinsâ€�?. Different approaches to indexing a blog post and its associated comments in the non-relational CouchDB.

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CouchDB first impressions

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - October 19, 2007

CouchDB first impressions. Jacob’s been poking at CouchDB. Inserting data is slow, but everything else looks pretty slick considering how recently the JSON / JavaScript views functionality was added.

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How should JSON strings be represented in Erlang?

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 14, 2007

How should JSON strings be represented in Erlang?. Erlang’s poor support for strings makes this a surprisingly tricky question.

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An Introduction to Erlang

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 13, 2007

An Introduction to Erlang. Erlang gets the ONLamp tutorial treatment from Gregory Brown.

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