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2008.05.21
Smarkets Erlang Web Framework, (London User Group Talk, UK)
Hunter Morris has kindly volunteered to speak at the next user group meeting. It will be on Erlang and web applications, a very hot topic these days. The talk will be at 18.30 on Wednesday the 21st of May in Skills Matter's training facilities on 1 Sekforde Street, Clerkenwell, London, EC1R 0BE. This is a free event, but you have to register to attend. To register, visit the regsitrations page...
Summary: As Erlang adoption grows, tools for building web applications and services are becoming increasingly important. Erlang's approach to concurrency make it a natural solution for application deployment on the web. Hunter will talk briefly about the current landscape for Erlang web applications and the tools available. He will also present the framework used at Smarkets, based on MochiWeb, ewgi, and sgte.
Biography: Hunter Morris is CTO and co-founder of Smarkets, a London-based betting exchange startup with a primarily Erlang codebase. Previously, he worked in London and Chicago for Wolverine Trading, a global derivatives market making firm. His main focus on software has been high-volume transactional systems and automated trading technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
Summary: As Erlang adoption grows, tools for building web applications and services are becoming increasingly important. Erlang's approach to concurrency make it a natural solution for application deployment on the web. Hunter will talk briefly about the current landscape for Erlang web applications and the tools available. He will also present the framework used at Smarkets, based on MochiWeb, ewgi, and sgte.
Biography: Hunter Morris is CTO and co-founder of Smarkets, a London-based betting exchange startup with a primarily Erlang codebase. Previously, he worked in London and Chicago for Wolverine Trading, a global derivatives market making firm. His main focus on software has been high-volume transactional systems and automated trading technology. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.
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