so last week i’ve been to a conference in good ol’ silicon valley -

a lot of focus on scalability and performance.  that being said – i’ve decided to be proactive and try out a stack i’m totally unfamiliar with, but apparently with great potential.

lyme – linux, yaws, mysql, erlang

linux - the tried and tested platform, open-source, and where all good things start.

yaws - yet another web server written in erlang, supposedly outperforms apache with throughput and parallel sessions.

mysql – i’m just a big fan, what can i say

erlang -  the language, created as a general purpose, concurrent language

so finally i got my lyme stack running on my machine – so now for the tedious process of evaluating it, and maybe do something like a simple user-to-user subscription service.  like the friends features of facebook

i’ll keep you informed with my findings, with a couple of code examples and a walkthrough of my experience.