http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/11/28/hardcore-erlang en-us 40 Adventures in software development <p>There is definitely a lot of momentum behind Erlang recently and more is about to come. A few months ago <a href="http://armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com/">Joe Armstrong</a> released <a href="http://www.pragprog.com/titles/jaerlang">Programming in Erlang</a> which set off the initial Erlang awareness for many people including myself. Earlier this month, Channel 9 posted two videos with Armstrong on Erlang (<a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=351659#351659">part1</a> and <a href="http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=352343#352343">part2</a>).</p> <p>Now another Erlang book is in progress: <a href="http://wagerlabs.com/archives/128.html">Hardcore Erlang</a> by <a href="http://wagerlabs.com/">Joel Reymont</a>.<br/> It is also another Pragmatic Programmers book. The inital project for the book was a poker server, but now the focus is on a stock exchange program. A quote from Reymont:</p> <blockquote> <p>"So lets build a stock exchange! Not just any stock exchange but one running on the biggest Erlang cluster in the world. This cluster does not exist yet but can be put together on a moments notice, using Amazon EC2."</p> </blockquote> <p>This book might just keep Erlang on the hotness list for the year of 2008.</p> Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:01:00 -0600 urn:uuid:ee710273-97ff-4757-9761-0ecdfbba6b24 Aaron Feng http://www.aaronfeng.com/articles/2007/11/28/hardcore-erlang programming