Interesting. How hard is it to find Erlang
programmers? Particularly one who knows enough to write a couple
ejabberd components? -- John Sander Devrieze wrote: Op dinsdag 12 september 2006 18:22, schreef John Almberg: <snip>As far as requirements for the server are concerned, what I'm mainly concerned about is stability and scalability, as this application must potentially support lots of simultaneous users. The actual number will depend on the market, so we need to be able to start small and grow arbitrarily large. I'm a bit worried about that requirement, to be honest.You might want to take a look at ejabberd: http://www.process-one.net/en/projects/ejabberd/docs/features.pdfejabberd is written in Erlang, as this unknown language might scare your manager, I've here a list of useful Erlang-related links: * A very recent deployment at the metro of Lyon, France (quote: "The customer was /very/ surprised with this new software that 'never crashed once'.": http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?t=6229 * From the same poster, how he convinced his boss: http://forum.trapexit.org/viewtopic.php?t=6253 * Why Erlang Is a Great Language for Concurrent Programming: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/08/16/why-erlang-is-a-great-language-for-concurrent-programming * Next article explains the future importancy of concurrency in software: http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm * "A functional program is ready for concurrency without any further modifications." (Erlang is a functional language): http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html * Erlang Style Concurrency: http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/concurrency.html * Erlang Hot Code Swapping -> Hacking Nirvana: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/06/22/erlang-hot-code-swapping-hacking-nirvana * The must-read Phd thesis of Joe Amstrong: http://www.sics.se/~joe/thesis/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf * Ericsson's Biggest PR Blunder: Forgetting to Tell Us That Erlang Programming Is FUN: http://yarivsblog.com/articles/2006/08/24/ericssons-biggest-pr-blunder-forgetting-to-tell-us-that-erlang-programming-is-fun This blog entry also might interest you if you would consider to deploy a large ejabberd installation with less memory: http://www.planeta.toliman.pl/?p=101 --
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