Erlang-style distribution [LWN.net]

Erlang-style distribution

Posted Jan 25, 2011 8:03 UTC (Tue) by sustrik (guest, #62161)
Parent article: LCA: Vint Cerf on re-engineering the Internet

"We currently have no equivalent to the Erlang distribution to describe usage at the edges of the network, making provisioning and scaling difficult."

We've been working on that for past couple of years. The idea is explained here:

http://www.250bpm.com/hits

ZeroMQ project can be thought of as a proof of concept.

Linux kernel implementation is underway.

I'm going to propose creation of dedicated IETF working group shortly.

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0mqftw

Posted Jan 25, 2011 12:09 UTC (Tue) by wingo (subscriber, #26929) [Link]

That looks really cool Martin, thanks for the link. And good luck!