Erlang

Part 20: Wheels within Wheels: Twisted and Erlang

This continues the introduction started here. You can find an index to the entire series here.

Introduction

One fact we’ve uncovered in this series is that mixing synchronous “plain Python” code with asynchronous Twisted code is not a straightforward task, since blocking for an indeterminate amount of time in a Twisted program will eliminate many of the benefits you are trying to achieve using the asynchronous model.

Although out of date in its technical details, the later chapters contain some excellent examples of distributed software construction in Erlang.

This is a nice complement to the Armstrong book. In particular, it has a great discussion of the Erlang tracing mechanisms.

An excellent introduction to the intriguing programming language and distributed software framework Erlang.