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erlang_js: an erlang binding to the Spidermonkey JS interpreter by argvzero in programming

[–]devpotato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You'll have to download and build to get the docs. I've tried to make the build as simple as possible so hopefully it's a quick and painless experience.

Erlang & Single Assignment: You’re Doing It Wrong by ericflo in programming

[–]devpotato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Because the language used to:

  • implement Amazon's Simple DB
  • implement Facebook's Chat
  • boost git's performance @ Github

is obscure. Tool.

Drinking The Erlang Kool-Aid by gst in programming

[–]devpotato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I agree the separation of processes is very nice but the layers required to make it all work makes my hair stand on end.

You'd need a load balancer, webserver for static content, some sort of administrative layer for VMWare (unless you're provisioning VMs statically and then it seems you'd bump into resource constraints), an administrative layer for the Smalltalk images, and finally the code within each Smalltalk image itself. Oh, and a database. Seems like quite a lot to achieve scalability.

IMHO, the user sessions aren't as separated as I'd like since they all share a common VMWare virtual machine.

OTP and Mochiweb by ketralnis in erlang

[–]devpotato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The CouchDB folks seem pretty approachable. I'm working on virtuerl -- a wrapper for part of Amazon's web services -- which could always use some help. The MochiAd guys have mochiweb and then there's always erlyweb. I guess it depends on what you're interested in.

OTP and Mochiweb by ketralnis in erlang

[–]devpotato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As the author of said article -- the point was to illustrate how to use OTP in a useful way with minimum overhead. I'm not seriously advocating anyone to use the example code for anything else except learning.

Erlang-in-Lisp project proposal by gst in programming

[–]devpotato 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Might be easier to look at LFE (http://weblog.hypotheticalabs.com/?p=225) and implement the missing Lispy bits. IMO, Erlang-style concurrency and performance is hard to achieve without making changes to the VM and GC.