Neil’s Notes and Thoughts

Posts published in 2013:

November 12, 2013

QuickChat and WebRTC

Tags: web, realtime, video, audio, file, sharing, messaging, learning, webrtc, javascript, python, quickchat

I have been working on a personal project called QuickChat for the last 3 weeks. A large part of the project uses WebRTC. It has...

May 15, 2013

Learning and using Erlang

Tags: scale, erlang, functional, programming, languages, realtime, messaging, learning, performance, concurrency

Recently, I built an Erlang-based realtime messaging platform at work. This post goes into detail about Erlang’s strengths,...

April 21, 2013

Building a Realtime Messaging Platform with Erlang

Tags: startup, erlang, functional, programming, languages, realtime, xmpp, ejabberd, scalability, python, gevent, messaging

Recently at work, we launched a realtime messaging feature. We used Erlang to build a central part of this feature's server...