erlang

putting the ‘errrrrrr’ in erlang

Dec 10th

Posted by dewaldbotha in erlang

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so for a while i’ve been trying to do a small something, anything in erlang.  got myself pragmatic programming in erlang, setup yaws on my ubuntu machine and downloaded an erlang web framework called erlyweb that seemed to glow with potential.

so, its been about 2 weeks, my fascination with erlang was as short lived as a teenage holiday romance.  the concurrent language which would probably topple all others if the overheads weren’t so much.  erlang has a huge learning curve, don’t think just cause you dabble in a bit of ruby you will pick up this language in one go

i’m sure it will More >

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lyme, a stack of scalability

Nov 25th

Posted by dewaldbotha in erlang

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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 More >

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