Chicago Erlang Users - April 2012

Web Development in Erlang

This is perhaps the most popular topic that comes up these days - second only to "how do I cut my annual downtime to 43 nanoseconds?"

We'll have three adrenaline packed presentations - newbie friendly, so tell your chums!

Rails Like Productivity + Erlang Performance with Chicago Boss

by Evan Miller

If you've grown accustomed to high productivity frameworks like Ruby on Rails and Django and are also concerned about performance and reliability, Chicago Boss was built for you! Evan will demonstrate how to use this framework to create sophisticated, scalable web applications can be built with minimal effort and complexity.

Webmachine / Cowboy for JavaScript MVC

by Tristan Sloughter

Webmachine is a framework that lets you build RESTful applications in Erlang. Cowboy is a high performance, full featured Erlang HTTP server. Tristan will show how you can use these servers to implement modern back ends for JavaScript based web applications.

Do It Yourself with Erlang httpd and modlib

by Garrett Smith

Erlang excels at building small, targeted applications. In this segment, Garrett will discuss how you can use Erlang's built-in httpd server and modlib to add web and REST interfaces to your applications without incurring the cost of a full fledged web framework.