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.
Geek ‘n Rolla was a day long (April 21, 2009) conference for startups created by TechCrunch Europe. As part of the day we asked startups around Europe to celebrate with a little rocking out. This video was created by Bonney and Klein, conceived by Stradbroke Advisors. GeeknRolla was sponsored by Viadeo, and supported by UK Trade and Investment, as well as NESTA, School for Startups and Bootlaw.
Ben Kepes from CloudAve recently wrote Is There a sweet spot for features? about usability issues in web applications offering more and more features everyday.
As he states:
It’s easy as pie to create a good looking and intuitive user experience when your solution only includes a few functional areas, but as you roll out further functionality all of a sudden that simplicity and intuitive feel starts to lose out to nested menus, complexity and options.
In my opinion, you have to solve two main issues:
How do you combine keeping it simple for users with simple needs with offering a complete solution to power users.
How do you display and browse your data, especially when the amount of features becomes huge.
During the week-end, our blog has been through an extreme makeover.
The design has changed. If you can’t see those changes or if the design looks weird, just hit the refresh button of your web browser.
The re-design includes a lot of new features, mainly in the side bar: direct access to the recent posts, pictures, videos, … and at the end of each post you will find a list of all the related posts.
The URL has also changed. Instead of http://beebole.com/blog/, it is now http://beebole.com/en/blog/. The old URL being redirected to here, it shouldn’t be an issue for the old links you might have in your favorites.
Don’t hesitate to give us any feedback about the new design/features or to report bugs via the comments hereunder.
The purpose of Tsung is to simulate users in order to test the scalability and performance of IP based client/server applications. You can use it to do load and stress testing of your servers.
In this post, I will introduce the use of Tsung in order for you to stress test your web applications.
Why Tsung ?
Because it’s an Open-Source project and, to tell the truth, mainly because this application has been coded in Erlang which gives Tsung a little advantage on the other tools: it has the potential to simulate A LOT of concurrent requests … without crashing. That’s what we expect from a stress testing app, isn’t it?
To end up, I would like to congratulate Mendeley and Myngle for winning the Start-Up Rally. Both have not only good products; they are also great people to meet.
You can find all the other videos, pictures and presentations of the conference here.
In this post, I’ll show you a way to implement a Captcha challenge-response test in an Erlang web application. This method is a simplified version of what we use in our Business Management application
It takes part in an ongoing series of Erlang tutorials that can be found on our Erlang website
