Erlang Solutions Newsletter 5th May 2010


Contents

  • Erlang Factory London 2010
  • TFP2010 and Amoocon2010
  • Erlang Solutions at conferences
  • London Erlang User Group meeting
  • Erlang Courses
  • Erlang News
  • New office in Sweden
  • ACM SIGPLAN calls for papers

Erlang Factory London 2010 is coming! Register now and save £400! 

The Erlang Factory conference will last two days from 10th to 11th June 2010. There will be over 35 talks in 6 separate tracks.  Among our first confirmed speakers are: Martin Odersky - the inventor of Scala, Robert Virding and Joe Armstrong – the inventors of Erlang and Bluetail co-founders, Justin Sheehy and Rusty Klophaus from Basho Technologies, Tom Preston-Werner - Github co-founder, Kresten Krab Thorup - the creator of Erjang, Scott Lystig Fritchie from Gemini Mobile Technologies, Dave Thomas - OO Visionary Thinker and Mark Zweifel and William Larson - Erlang evangelists at Yahoo! Find the full list in the speakers page.

Prior to the conference, there will be the three day Erlang University on the 7th, 8th and 9th June, allowing you to learn Erlang from the experts. You can choose from the following courses: Erlang Express, Erlang OTP Express, Web Programming with Erlang and Quick Check for Erlang Developers.

Hurry! We have extended the Very Early-Bird offer! Register before the 7th May 2010 and save up to £400. So far each Erlang Factory has been met with great interest so don't waste time. Register before it sells out!


Erlang News

Basho Technologies has released Bitcask, a fast, simple, robust key/value store in Erlang that is capable of handling huge data sets without the limitations currently found in dets.

After attending the Erlang Factory SF Bay 2010,  Kresten Krab Thorup (CTO of Trifork and Creator of Erjang) has implemented his own open source version of Quick Check, called Triq - Trifork QuickCheck. You can read about it in his blog and find the code on  Github.

JLOUIS Ramblings has written a very interesting blog post "Haskell vs. Erlang for bittorent clients", where he compares the two programming languages. You can read and comment on it here.

Moshe Kaplan has written a very interesting blog entry: "There is a buzz in the industry regarding how the Erlang, Hadoop and AWS stack enables sites scalability and how it lets them handling the demand when you hit the buzz (TechCrunch, Dig...). An example for that is Issuu.com, a content publishing platform that is using this stack to enable millions of publications in the web and the mobiles (Android and iPhone). Tania Anderson describes this case study in a Danish article (use Google Translate for it)."

PyErl 0.3 has been recently released. PyErl is an Erlang Interface for Python, which helps to integrate programs written in Python and Erlang.

A big congratulations to everyone at Rabbit Technologies Ltd, the company behind RabbitMQ. They have been acquired by SpringSource, a division of VMware, Inc. Read more about it in the SpringSource press release.


Exago, property monitoring via log file analysis (London User Group Talk, UK)

Our next London Erlang User Group meeting will take place on Thursday, 13th May 2010. That time Atilla Erdodi will give a talk on Exago, property monitoring via log file analysis.

The meeting will be held in Erlang Solutions' meeting room on the 1st floor of the Fruit and Wool Exchange. For directions, visit our Contact page. Be there at 18.00 for an 18.30 start. In order to attend this free event, you have to register here.

Erlang Courses

Our next scheduled Erlang courses are:

London (at the Erlang Factory): 

Sydney:


Erlang Solutions at conferences

Erlang Solutions will be giving tutorials, presentations or chair the following:

Erlang Solutions Opens New Office in Stockholm, Sweden

Due to a large increase in demand of demand Erlang Solutions has opened an office in Stockholm. The office is located in central Stockholm, close to Central Station. The strategic location of the office, modern training facilities as well as new employees will allow us to better serve our extensive client base located there.  We look forward to holding training courses, additional evening classes, the School of Erlang and Erlang User Group Meetings there.

If you are nearby, you are welcome to visit us at: Saltmätargatan 5, 113 59 Stockholm, Sweden. The office can be also reached by phone at +46 - (0) 8 - 120 424 00

CALL FOR PAPERS - Ninth ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop

This satellite event of the 15th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP)in Baltimore (USA) is calling for papers. Two sorts of submissions are invited:
1) technical papers describing language extensions, critical discussions of the status quo, formal semantics of language constructs, program analysis and transformation, virtual machine extensions and compilation techniques, implementations and interfaces of Erlang in/with other languages, and new tools (profilers, tracers, debuggers, testing frameworks, etc.)
 2) practice and application papers describing uses of Erlang in the "real-world", Erlang libraries for specific tasks, experiences from using Erlang in specific application domains, reusable programming idioms and elegant new ways of using Erlang to approach or solve a particular problem.

The ACM SIGPLAN Erlang Workshop will take place on 30th September in Baltimore (USA).