Paper
Joe Armstrong is a co-inventor of Erlang and general all around renaissance software tinkerer as shown by his excellent work on writing a C Compiler and his voluminous work on GitHub. Given the success of Erlang it's probably no surprise that he wrote his thesis on the ground
Example
This is a guest post by Jon Vlachogiannis. Jon is the founder and CTO of BugSense. BugSense, is an error-reporting and quality metrics service that tracks thousand of apps every day. When mobile apps crash, BugSense helps developers pinpoint and fix the problem. The startup delivers first-class service to its
Python
Ringo is an experimental, distributed, replicating key-value store based on consistent hashing and immutable data. Unlike many general-purpose databases, Ringo is designed for a specific use case: For archiving small (less than 4KB) or medium-size data items (<100MB) in real-time so that the data can survive K - 1
Product
Disco is an open-source implementation of the MapReduce framework for distributed computing. It was started at Nokia Research Center as a lightweight framework for rapid scripting of distributed data processing tasks. The Disco core is written in Erlang. The MapReduce jobs in Disco are natively described as Python programs, which
Example
Update: Erlang at Facebook by Eugene Letuchy. How Facebook uses Erlang to implement Chat, AIM Presence, and Chat Jabber support. I've done some XMPP development so when I read Facebook was making a Jabber chat client I was really curious how they would make it work. While core
Strategy
High Performance Multithreaded Access to Amazon SimpleDB is a great follow up to the idea in How SimpleDB Differs from a RDBMS that more programming is the price paid for performance in SimpleDB. It shows how much work and infrastructure is required to batter better performance out of SimpleDB. Remember,