big erlang web solution

[Roberto Saccon]

For similar reason I just started to take a closer look at Erlang !
For distributed filesystem I found the following:

http://couchdb.infogami.com/

At his blog,  I asked whether CouchDB is comparable to MogileFS or
Amazon S3, read his answer there:

http://damienkatz.net/2006/06/coin_in_the_cou.html#comments

regards
Roberto



On 6/22/06, bryan rasmussen <rasmussen.bryan@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi, I've decided to work on a new web site project and I've decided to
> use Erlang for it.
>
> The reason for using Erlang is two fold:
>
> 1. I want to have fun making the project.
> 2. The site has to be extremely scalable. Although I might not move it
> out to large scale work I want it to be able to handle it.
>
> Other requirements I have are as follows:
>
> 1. Will be hosted on a linux machine. Does anyone have any notes on
> performance of Erlang and also Yaws on different 'brands' of linux.
>
> 2. I will want to have use a distributed filesystem instead of
> database to access data. Any good recommendations in this context.
> Database will still probably be used to hold pointers to specific data
> but data will be in filesystem.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Bryan Rasmussen
>


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Roberto Saccon