[erlang-questions] Developing killer / open source apps

[Tim Watson]

On 1 August 2011 23:53, Nick S <nick.sfx.1@REDACTED> wrote:
> I have just finished implementing a "professional" Erlang server, and with
> time and enthusiasm in hand, I would like to start working on something
> personal.
> I must say, it has been really fun writing apps in OTP and see it processing
> millions of messages without ever crashing...!
>
> Would appreciate some new ideas, that would be useful to community :)
>
> - XMPP, AMQP etc are already in market!
>
> - Any audio/video processing layer?

http://code.google.com/p/erlyvideo/ has pretty much cornered this now.

>
> - Any telecom related...?
>

I have some interesting ideas here if you're up for learning megaco
and have access to kit (incl. network) for testing purposes.

> - Some standard protocol implementation?
>

There is a need for term (de)serialisation and data format translation
between common formats (XML, JSON, CSV, etc) which would be useful.
See this thread -
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-August/060405.html -
read to the end.

It would also be very nice to have a standard database connectivity
API - see this thread for a conversation that's currently going on in
this space: http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060347.html.

> - Something new for next generation...? (Buzz words... cloud computing
> etc..)

There is already CloudI on github. If you fancy implementing
http://dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts/index.shtml in Erlang then
I'll join in, especially if you decide to extend the mapping
capabilities to non-relational data storage engines. :)

I'm not sure it's really a buzz-word, but the community is pretty
desperate to get better support for profiling and diagnostic tooling.
See this thread -
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2011-July/060241.html -
there are *amazing* tools in OTP already, but support for working with
clustered/grid applications and chopping up the stats would be really
useful. There are projects starting to do this (my own, which I've
stopped working on for the time being and a couple of others) but
nobody seems to have *nailed it* yet.