Scaling Large Projects With Erlang

Delchanat points out a blog entry which notes, "The two biggest computing-providers of today, Amazon and Google, are building their concurrent offerings on top of really concurrent programming languages and systems. Not only because they want to, but because they need to. If you want to build computing into a utility, you need large real-time systems running as efficiently as possible. You need your technology to be able to scale in a similar way as other, comparable utilities or large real-time systems are scaling — utilities like telephony and electricity. Erlang is a language that has all the right properties and mechanisms in place to do what utility computing requires. Amazon SimpleDB is built upon Erlang. IMDB (owned by Amazon) is switching from Perl to Erlang. Google Gears is using Erlang-style concurrency, and the list goes on."

Comments

Erlang: The Movie !

[Enlightenment]

They were right!

Who wrote the summary? GWB?

[Junior J. Junior III]

"running as sufficiently as possible"?

Sometimes as a nation we must ask ourselves, is our children learning?

Re:hard to read after

[jc42]

"you need large real-time systems running as sufficiently as possible."

Should that not be efficiently as possible?

You obviously haven't looked very closely at any of the "market leader" software lately.

Software from the Big Guys is more and more designed to sell (think forced upgrades) bigger, faster systems. You don't do this by making your software efficient.

The logic behind many software updates these days is "Will this release require sufficient resources that customers will be persuaded to upgrade to new hardware?"

Re:hard to read after

[The End Of Days]

You obviously don't read summaries, articles, or headlines. The logic behind your post is "rant about something for no reason at all."

Too late

[Fnord666]

Anyhow, this post was not intended to be a rant about old-school technology solutions vs. current and future technology problems.

Given that this statement appears almost halfway through the blog post, I would say that it was already too late for that.

Re:Why Erlang doesn't matter

[Anonymous Coward]

Erlang's syntax comes from Prolog. This is not so strange with the first versions of Erlang having been implemented in Prolog. The syntax is very natural. Like the english language you have . and , doing different things. How hard can it be?

Re:"Cloud computing" is an Xmas artifact

[datablaster]

Santa Claus, take note: Just what do you do with your sleigh and reindeer the rest of the year? That 11-month excess capacity could be out makin' you money Jan thru Nov.

Re:hard to read after

[The Clockwork Troll]

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