Process Bottlenecks in Erlang Web Apps
In my “Functional Web” March/April 2011 column (PDF), I explore potential process bottleneck problems within Erlang web applications, specifically around the issue of process fan-in. I’ve seen...
View ArticleWarp: A Haskell Web Server
A new “Functional Web” column! Michael Snoyman contributed the May/June 2011 issue, entitled Warp: A Haskell Web Server (PDF). This is a nice follow-up to the previous column on Snap, and it includes...
View ArticleErlang Web Server Benchmarking
Over on his blog, Roberto Ostinelli published “A comparison between Misultin, Mochiweb, Cowboy, NodeJS and Tornadoweb.” I was going to write a reply comment there, but it got pretty long so I decided...
View ArticleMore Erlang Web Server Benchmarking
In my previous blog entry I questioned the value of most web server benchmarking, particularly as related to Erlang. Typical benchmarks are misleading, inaccurate, and poorly executed. Perhaps worse,...
View ArticleConcurrency and Message Passing in Erlang
In July 2011 I received an email asking if I would write an article about Erlang for the IEEE Computers in Science and Engineering (CiSE) magazine. The email said they had first invited Joe Armstrong...
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