Mark Imbriaco
System Administrator 37signals
37signals
Mark Imbriaco has worked as a system architect and developer for firms
ranging from small startups to large corporations like Bank of America
and America Online. He is currently a system administrator at
37signals where he is responsible for running the infrastructure that
supports their popular suite of applications. Mark discovered Erlang
as part of his continual desire to find new approaches for building
scalable applications and has recently deployed the first Erlang
application at 37signals.
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Mark Imbriaco is Giving the Following Talks
Campfire Loves Erlang
Campfire is the popular web based group chat application created by
37signals. This talk will cover the architecture of Campfire and the
decisions which led to replacing a functional C based polling service
with an Erlang version. I will compare three implementations: a Ruby
prototype, the former production C version, and the current Erlang
version on the basis of code complexity, deployment and manageability,
and performance. Using the right tool for the job makes all the
difference and Erlang turned out to be the right tool. We will
discuss some other areas at 37signals where it might also be a good fit.
