On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:31 PM, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Have fun clustering with Erlang/rumprun unikernels, which will allow you to >> build applications in new and interesting ways. >> > > ... can you expand on what ways those would be? I doubt I am the only one > on this list who is not an Erlang expert or familiar with why you'd use > Erlang. While your writeup (*) explains the nitty-gritty procedures of how > to set up the cluster, it doesn't explain what sort of applications you > would actually run. A high-level paragraph surveying those applications > would really open up to us the potential enabled by your work. > > There are many cool features provided by erlang (2), which is a nice addition to the rumprun unikernel. The Erlang/rumprun fits beautifully with the microservice architecture though the adoption of microservices itself is something which will be known with time. I found online reference (3) indicating that some organizations (e.g. Netflix) are using the microservices architecture in production. Having said that a high level functional programming language with a core value of "let-it-crash" (2) and distribution complements rumprun unikernel. I also believe that unikernels will be key in building next generation of service architectures.
I am just scratching the surface here and only time will tell how much of this translates into a practical use. It will be great to hear what others think about this? -Neeraj [1] http://veldstra.org/whyerlang/ [2] http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LetItCrash [3] http://martinfowler.com/articles/microservices.html
