Building Web Applications with Erlang: Working with REST and Web Sockets on Yaws

Erlang was designed for fault-tolerant, non-stop telecom systems, and building applications with it requires a large set of skills. By the end of the book, you’ll have the information you need to build a basic web service and get it running.

• Explore the power of Erlang and REST for building web services
• Serve static and dynamic content with the Yaws web server
• Use different methods for outputting data to user, such as encoding Erlang data structures into JSON or XML
• Build an application to listen for HTTP requests, process them, store data, and return useful data
• Go beyond the request-response model—push data to clients with web sockets
• Use Erlang and Yaws to stream data from the server to a client

"A book which is truly needed and will help get Erlang to the next level."

—Francesco Cesarini, CEO of Erlang Solutions, author of Erlang Programming.