Hot on the heels of last week’s Arc release and subsequent Arc challenge, Yariv Sadan (ErlyWeb) has announced the Erlang Challenge. The goal is to design & program an advanced “parallel map” function that can “spawn at least 1 million concurrent processes on a modern server machine”.
More details on Yariv’s Blog, along with a follow-up post.
Dive Into Erlang takes an in-depth look at the benefits of using Erlang as web programming platform, from the point-of-view of a Ruby/Rails developer. YAWS, Mnesia, and of course, concurrency, all enter the equation.
Yariv Saden, author of the ErlyWeb web programming framework, takes a quick look at the increasing amount of attention Erlang’s received lately.
This post at JJinux explains how to perform easy bit unpacking in Erlang. Very cool.
Tim Dalton has shared a small bowling game written in Erlang and Scala.
Jim Menard rips through several components of his Erlang MIDI File Reader/Writer.
The 99 bottles of beer song has been realized in concurrent Erlang, and written again using MapReduce.
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ErlyBird 0.11.2, a NetBeans based IDE for Erlang, has just been released. The project is still in alpha state, and welcomes any feedback and/or bug reports.
