I’m still playing around with Mnesia and CouchDB as discussed in the previous posts, but one of the purposes of the test project I’m doing at the moment is to be able to compare various approaches. There doesn’t seem much point playing with new and exciting things without making a comparison with more tried and tested ways, which is my justification for importing this data a third time.
I decided to switch my multi-virtual machine test/dev setup over to a minimal Debian install, not least because I couldn’t keep my mind off the fact that I was carting around a full desktop installation along with various ‘pretty’ desktop backgrounds, system administration for GUI-monkeys applications, and god knows what else. One batch of this stuff is bad enough, but repeated N times it’s too much for me to handle.
I stayed up far too late last night playing with Erlang and friends - much longer than planned due to a few hitches. I did manage to complete more or less what I’d planned in the end though, so here is the documentation.
Building on the steps in the previous parts of this series, I’ve added ErlyWeb into the equation. ErlyWeb is a web application framework built on Erlang/YAWS which I’ve been reading a bit about recently. As well as the main web site linked above, Yariv Sadan’s blog is a good source of information.