Lets rewind to about a month ago. As I usually do, I skipped past the README files and installed Erlang with apt-get. Ten seconds later, I had Erlang up and running on my Ubuntu development VM. Like a bad teenage horror movie, I’m sure you can see where this is going. Fast forward to present day. I was running into another serious compiler error with Erlang. A...

I’ve been teaching myself Erlang.  It’s a great Functional Programming language. I’ve also dabbled a little with Scala. Besides wanting to learn a new computer language, I’ve also wanted to port some of my high-traffic Ruby On Rails sites into Erlang. Erlang will be able to handle 3x-4x the traffic using less resources. Less EC2 instances up...