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Dynamo seems to be still pretty early in development. You might want to watch the video linked to the page from the 0redev conference. He doesn't talk about dynamo much, but he does give "2013" as the date for Dynamo. On the WebSockets issue, I'd check out Cowboy. Cowboy seems to be the new hotness in erlang web apps. It has at least some support for web sockets. https://github.com/extend/cowboy If you're looking for a full featured web framework with built-in web socket support then maybe what you really want is Nitrogen: http://nitrogenproject.com Finally, and just for completeness, since I'm mentioning web frameworks, you'll probably want to see what ChicagoBoss's WS story is: http://www.chicagoboss.org or if someone's done something with WebMachine and websockets: http://basho.com I think Nitrogen sounds like the best bet. Since

http://learnyousomeerlang.com/ You can pick up the basic syntax in one full day easily (if you are an experienced developer and already understand functional programming) ... 3 or 4 days if you are new to functional coding or just very inexperienced. It is a very brief / minimalist language from a syntax point of view. Then, it will take a week or two to get your head around OTP, which is the primary framework and has years (decades?) of mission critical work under its belt. Then, at the end of your journey will be the really hard problems... dealing with massive netsplits at a cluster level, elections for new masters, and all the other hard problems that happen at the upper-tier of massive clusters. If you are building an HTTP(S) app -- you can blessedly avoid a lot of these by avoiding a true massive cluster all together and using lots

Some neat Erlang projects: * ErlGuten, PDF generator: https://github.com/hwatkins/erlguten * OpenCL binding: https://github.com/tonyrog/cl * gen_smtp, SMTP library: https://github.com/Vagabond/gen_smtp * erl_img, image manipulator: https://github.com/evanmiller/erl_img * ErlyDTL, Django template compiler: https://github.com/evanmiller/erlydtl * BossDB, evented database abstraction layer: https://github.com/evanmiller/boss_db * Jerome, RTF/HTML/BBCode/Textile processor: https://github.com/evanmiller/jerome * Cowboy, web server with WebSockets: https://github.com/extend/cowboy * Chicago Boss, full-featured web framework: http://www.chicagoboss.org/ Those are just my favorites, there are many more listed here: http://erlagner.org/ Things I would use Erlang for: * Network programming * Web programming * Sending a lot of emails Things I would

No. He is using Cowboy[1], which is the mainstream websocket Erlang implementation (uh.. cowboy actually is a socket acceptor pool which happens to have awesome HTTP and WS handlers). [1]: https://github.com/ericmoritz/wsdemo/blob/master/src/wsdemo.... [2]: https://github.com/extend/cowboy