[u-u] Erlounge Tonight

[Colin McGregor]

This was posed to the Unix Unanimous mailing list and could be of
interest to some here on the Greater Toronto Area Linux user group
mailing list....


On 9/11/08, Vance Shipley <vances-NDJSX5ujJUssA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> As mentioned at last night's meeting the second Toronto
> Erlounge will be tonight, Thursday September 11th at 7:00pm
> at the Rhino Bar (1249 Queen St. West).  It will be a smaller
> group than UU I'm sure.
>
> Erlounge events are informal gatherings of folks interested
> in talking about Erlang:
>
> 	http://www.erlang.org
>
> Erlang is a concurrency oriented programming language (COPL)
> with built with distribution, hot code loading and fault-tolerance
> in mind.  Some opensource Erlang projects are:
>
> 	Yet Another Web Server (Yaws):  http://yaws.hyber.org
> 	Jabber Server (ejabberd):  http://www.process-one.net/en/ejabberd
> 	SIP Server (Yxa):  http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/yxa
> 	Document Database (CouchDB):  http://incubator.apache.org/couchdb
> 	Scalable Web (Scalaris):  http://www.onscale.de/scalaris.html
> 	Map-Reduce for Python? (disco):  http://discoproject.org
>
> It is used in many telecommunications systems made by Ericsson and
> is behind Amazon SimpleDB and Facebook Chat.
>
> Erlang provides the tools to leverage the multicore machines being
> introduced by Sun and others.  It is a runtime system in which you
> are encouraged to create lots of processes.  Thousands or even
> hundreds of thousands are entirely fine.  It is a functional language
> with dynamic typing and garbage collection.  Data sharing is message
> passing only.  Code is compiled into virtual machine byte code and
> run in the emulator.  Erlang processes are scheduled across the SMP
> OS threads.
>
> The comparison here highlights how massive concurrency can be useful:
>
> 	http://www.sics.se/~joe/apachevsyaws.html
>
> A Googgle Group has been created here where announcements of future
> Erlounge events will be made:  http://groups.google.com/group/tdoterl.
>
> 	-Vance
>
> I might as well mention some of my projects too :)
>
> 	http://hss.googlecode.com
> 	http://code.google.com/p/lapderl
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