[Midlands] [OT] Erlang User Group

[Michael Connors]

Hi Martin,
Seems most of the jobs advertised are Stockholm based (Maybe Ericsson
spin-offs). But there are some companies dotted around that use Erlang.
There is a usergroup in Paris and a couple of well established Erlang shops
there. There are a few in Amsterdam also. It is also used by Facebook for
the instant messaging system.

I would say that the killer apps are:

Ejabberd: XMPP server (Instant messaging such as facebook chat or google
chat)
CouchDB: NoSQL database

However I am doing web-development with it: http://zotonic.com/ or
http://www.chicagoboss.org/


Here is a Jobs Site that was recently established for Erlang positions, site
is of created in Erlang: http://totally-erlang.com/

<http://totally-erlang.com/>Nokia have a project called Disco that sees
Erlang work with Python: http://discoproject.org/

So I would say rather than it being a case of people still using it, it is
more a case of people starting to use it, and in ways that were never
imagined when it was created by Ericsson.

On 30 September 2010 22:04, martin naughton <blades2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Michael,
>                     well done on setting up a group. Do many companies use
> erlang any more? I work for ericsson in ireland and they do not use here.
> Maybe some where else in the world.
>
>
> Regards
> Martin
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Michael Connors <connorsml at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> We have just started an Erlang Ireland Google Group
>> http://groups.google.com/group/erlang-ireland?hl=en with the intention of
>> creating a point of contact for people in Ireland interested in Erlang.
>>
>> Erlang is a functional language which is suited to writing scalable
>> distributed applications. If you are running Ubuntu you can install it
>> with
>> apt-get. You can find a good overview of the language here:
>> http://erlangcamp.com/article/395/overview-of-erlang
>>
>>
>>
>> If there are enough people interested perhaps we can organize talks,
>> tutorials or social meetups in Dublin or elsewhere in the country.
>>
>> --
>> Michael Connors
>>
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>
>
> --
> Regards
> Martin Naughton
>



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