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CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - September 03, 2007

CouchDB: Thinking beyond the RDBMS. CouchDB is a fascinating project—an Erlang powered non-relational database with a JSON API that lets you define “viewsâ€� (really computed tables) based on JavaScript functions that execute using map/reduce. Damien Katz, the main developer currently works for MySQL and used to work on Lotus Notes.

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A quote from Ralph Johnson

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - August 08, 2007

Erlang fits all the characteristics of an OO system, even though sequential Erlang is a functional language, not an OO language - Ralph Johnson

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JSON and JSON-RPC for Erlang

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - March 25, 2007

JSON and JSON-RPC for Erlang. Nice example of using lists:reverse and an accumulator to efficiently build a string in reverse order.

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Programming Erlang

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - March 03, 2007

Programming Erlang. A book on Erlang from the creator of the language himself, out in July but available to buy now as a beta PDF.

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ErlyWeb Documentation

Simon Willison - Simon Willison - December 20, 2006

ErlyWeb Documentation. The Erlang web framework finally gets some formal documentation.

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