Erlang in your Infrastructure

When: 12th of May

Erlang <http://erlang.org/> has not gained a huge following as a
programming language but it is being used to build scalable chunks of
infrastructure. From messaging to queues to document databases, Erlang
is increasingly providing the service backbone for applications written
in a variety of languages on top of it. Even if you code in Java, Ruby,
Javascript or C# you may be relying on Erlang to provide reliability,
distributed services and huge lightweight concurrency.

The use of different languages to solve different problem spaces has
also given rise to the need to create lightweight platform and language
data exchange formats, the most famous of which is JSON but includes
Apache Thrift <http://incubator.apache.org/thrift/> and Protocol Buffers
<http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/>.

So whatever you program in you should known what Erlang can do for you.

Tonight's talks will include a talk by Alexis Richardson, Mike Bridgen
and Matthias Radestock about RabbitMQ <http://www.rabbitmq.com/> the
AMQP <http://www.amqp.org/> implementation in Erlang. Oscar Hellstrom
and Tamas Nagy will be talking about XMPP <http://xmpp.org/> and
ejabberd <http://www.ejabberd.im/>.

* AMQP - what, why, how, and why not
* RabbitMQ is made of erlang inside
* CouchDB and RabbitMQ use case
* XMPP and Jabber
* Applied ejabberd, a demo of two applications that using Erlang and
Jabber


This Geek Night is being held in conjunction with the London Erlang User
Group <http://www.erlang-consulting.com/erlang/usergroup/erlanglondon.html>.

Register for the event at the Upcoming Page
<http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2295373/>.

For more info, see
http://londongeeknights.wetpaint.com/page/Erlang+in+your+Infrastructure

Francesco