A few weeks back -- the week of the PyCon sprints, in fact -- was the
San Francisco Erlang conference. This was a small conference (I haven't been to one so small since PyCon was at GW in the early 2000s), and absolutely charming as a result. There were some really nifty talks and a lot of fantastic hallway and ballroom conversations... not to mention Robert Virding's very sweet
Raspberry Pi Erlang-powered wall-sensing Lego robot.
My first Erlang Factory, the event lasted for two fun-filled days and culminated with a
stroll in the evening sun of San Francisco down to the Rackspace office where we held a
Meetup mini-conference (beer, food, and three more talks). Conversations lasted until well after 10pm with the
remaining die-hards making a trek through the nighttime streets SOMA and the Financial District back to their respective abodes.
Before the close of the conference, however, we managed to sneak a ride (4 of us in a Mustang) to Scoble's studio and conduct an interview with
Joe Armstrong and
Robert Virding. We covered some of the basics in order to provide a gentle overview for folks who may not have been exposed to Erlang yet and are curious about what it has to offer our growing multi-core world. This wend up on the
Rackspace blog as well as the
Building 43 site (also on
YouTube). We've got a couple of teams using Erlang in Rackspace; if you're interested, be sure to email
Steve Pestorich and ask him what's available!
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