Cross-Language RPC with Erlang

Slides to my ErlangDC2011 talk – “Everybody Polyglot!” – are on SlideShare:

** Everybody Polyglot! - Cross-Language RPC with Erlang** View more presentations from Rusty Klophaus

The talk attempts to demystify the mechanics of calling into Erlang from some other language by selecting three approaches to RPC (REST/JSON, Protocol Buffers, and BERT-RPC) and stepping through:

The Request/Response chatter
Client-side code
Server-side code
Round-Trip Encoding Performance
Operation Performance

I referenced the following Erlang projects in my talk:

Spooky (REST)
Webmachine (REST)
Erlang Protobuffs (PB)
Ernie Server (BERT-RPC)

I realized, after giving my talk, that two very important slides accidentally fell off the editing board. I have re-added the missing slides, but am repeating the information below.

The first slide contained a list of other cross-language mechanisms:

RPC:

Erlang <-> Other Code:

Erlang Ports
Erlang Port Drivers
NIFs - Extend Erlang with new functions.

“Fake” Erlang Nodes:

The second slide contained a list of related talks:

Anton Lavrik - Piqi-RPC: exposing Erlang services via JSON, XML and Google Protocol Buffers over HTTP
Tom Preston-Werner - BERT is to Erlang as JSON is to JavaScript
Todd Lipcon - Thrift Avro/Erlang Bindings
Cliff Moon - Building Polyglot Distributed Systems with Jinterface
Kresten Krab Thorup - Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM
Yurii Rashkovskii - Beam.JS: Erlang meets JavaScript

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