What's it all about, Alfie?

I was looking on the web today for some C++ library that would wrap the erlang interface (ei) that appears very full-featured and yet somewhat cumbersome for a C++ codebase. I looked at several until I found one that looked to be full-featured, well thought out, and complete. I stopped when I found eixx on GitHub. This looks to be very nice. I haven't used it - yet, but if we go forward with the idea of having each service connect into the distributed erlang network and use that as the way to talk to the services, and serve up data.

The real advantage with this scheme is that we no longer have to deal with async I/O on the sockets for the client or the server. It's all encapsulated in the erlang runtime/library and that takes all the responsibility from our hands and puts it in the hands of the guys who made the language. Very nice.

Anyway... it'll be interesting when we move on this. I'm actually looking forward to it.

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