Monthly Archives: April 2011

Erlang strings are painful

Oh it’s so true. The pain is super apparent, especially when trying to parse configuration files. The traditional way to parse a configuration file that is not in the erlang format can be pretty hard to do. For instance, for beehive, the application configuration template looks like:

In this new series on my blog, we’ll look at a few different deployment frameworks (as alternatives to Beehive).

VMWare just released their new CloudFoundry framework to the Open-Source world. Obviously, I’m pretty interested in application deployment, so this clearly piqued my interest.