Presentation: Tweet"Living in a Polyglot World: Ruby on the Client, Erlang on the Server"
Over the course of 4 years as a startup in the configuration management space, Opscode has seen a lot of code come and go. We've just completed a full rewrite of the server side API from Ruby in Unicorn to Erlang in Webmachine, with amazing improvements in memory usage and concurrency. I'll talk about why, for Opscode, Ruby is still the best choice on the client, but Erlang rules the server.
Talk objectives: This talk shows the "horses for courses" choices we make in languages and technologies to serve a diverse set of business needs.
Target audience: This talk will appeal to technical implementers of scalable web services, functional programmers of all sorts, and even Ruby zealots!
