After reading an interesting article on Erlang  and Java interoperability, I have decided to dedicate my spare time to Erlang.

O’Reilly has just published a wonderful book on Erlang, so I decided to dive into it.

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Yahoo has been a vociferous Apache Hadoop user and supporter for several years now, and uses it extensively within its Search technologies. Hadoop has been gaining popularity in the Cloud Computing space, with companies like the NYTimes converting 4TB and 11 million articles to PDFs in under 24 hours using Hadoop and EC2 in late 2007. Hadoop has been made available in Amazon’s cloud and Yahoo has now released its own Hadoop version.

from Slashdot | Yahoo Releases Open Source Hadoop Distribution.

As processors become faster and multiprocessor systems become cheaper, the need to take advantage of multithreading in order to achieve full hardware resource utilization only increases the importance of being able to incorporate concurrency in a wide variety of application categories.

In this article we are evaluting a new approach to the concurrency.
In the last five years computers are becoming even more parallel.
Intel is pushing multi-core achiteture also on commodity personal computers.
Neverless the computing power is ofter not well used: one again, hardware is a step head of our day-by-day software development.
Remember when the 80286 came into light.
The 286 was able to provide a multi-programming architecture but without memory management protection.
We had to wait 386 hardware to see software working on preemptive multi-tasking, because software cannot cope with unprotected memory. In one word, it costs too much to develop a operating system without the new features the 80386 bring to us.
What about concurrent programming? Can we look similarities in the  concurrency field?

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