#Cowboy #Erlang #OTP #rebar #sinan

Sinan Releases and Being Right

Fred, of Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good, today posted on his blog about the problems around how rebar handles releases, Rebar Releases and Being Wrong. The problems he mentions and a few others are why, despite giving it a legitimate shot, I have found rebar unusable for my workflow to be efficient and stable while adhering to OTP standards at the same time. I suggest first reading his post, if you already use rebar, and then continuing on with the rest of this. ...

#batman.js #Cowboy #Erlang #Javascript #RESTful #web development #Webmachine

Cowboy and Batman.js for Erlang Web Development

Why Cowboy and Batman.js There are a lot of Erlang web frameworks out there today. Not all are modeled after the MVC model (see Nitrogen), but I think all of them are addressing the problem the wrong way. I recently gave a presentation, slides hereĀ and the code for this example here, describing my perferred method for using Erlang for web development and why I think it is the best way to go. ...