Smarkets Tech Talk on Erlang
July 3, 2009
Hunter spoke June 26th at Erlang Factory to talk about our back-end software stack. He also gives some background information on the online gambling industry. Smarkets was built using many open source Erlang tools, including CouchDB and RabbitMQ. The core transaction engine is written in Erlang and provides a resource-oriented API. This talk shows how the Smarkets platform was built, an overview of the architecture, and why Erlang was the right choice for us.
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September 3, 2009 at 18:44
[...] The core application at Smarkets is a scalable transaction engine written in Erlang with most persistent data stored in CouchDB. Erlang has some very exciting features that transfer well to high volume, real time markets. Our front-end website is built using Python. The website and transaction engine communicate using a RESTful API. We will be releasing our open API to the public sometime in 2010 so that third party developers can make their own applications built on top of our back-end. Our CTO gave a great talk on our tech platform at the Erlang Factory. You can watch a video of his talk here. [...]