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Aww, I dismissed Erlang about 4 months ago because I didn't see anything like this existing and didn't want to bother writing it myself.
Well, time to revisit it!

In truth, the team I work with tried to use Erlang to power some real-time components of the website we were building at the time but we couldn't get it to work. We kept hitting scalability walls and the problems were too opaque to diagnose.

We decided to go with something better understood by the development community at large and built a Ruby/EventMachine solution.

I'm not an Erlang pro by any stretch, so you know it's bad news when your blog posts about the language are some of the highest ranked for obvious search terms like "Erlang tutorial."