37Signals is a great company with amazing achievements. Behind Basecamp (an incredibly simple project management tool) and Ruby on Rails (Yeah, just that), they are now announcing they just dived into the Erlang world.
They use it for their Campfire application which is a web-based messaging/chatroom solution and the performances prove one more time that Erlang is a killer language when it comes to build stable and scalable back end systems.
You can read their full article here.
37Signals, Facebook,…
What are you waiting for? Start developing your own web application with Erlang now!
I’m pretty sure Google is a fanatic Erlang user as well…
Well, it would be very interesting to know it if you have any info.
They have never really hidden anything about technology so, my guess is that most of their back-end is Python.
I tried to find out where I read about Google using Erlang but wasn’t able to find the reference anymore
I found the blog post: http://www.onflex.org/ted/2008/01/why-erlang.php Whether it’s correct that Google & Amazon are using Erlang on a large scale is another question of course…
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I’m Interested in your thoughts.. Does 37signals or E-myth have the right philosophy for business start-ups today? http://www.purlem.com/blog/?p=38
I cannot speak for Google, but Facebook publicly announced their use of Erlang/OTP at the Commercial Users of Functional Programming 2009 conference earlier in the year in Glasgow and spoke about their experience developing largest application of Erlang/OTP at Facebook, Chat.