The future of the web with Cowboy and Ranch

And other projects

Loïc Hoguin - ホーガン・ロイック - @lhoguin

Erlang Cowboy and Nine Nines Founder

Cowboy

Cowboy 0.8

• Use Ranch for connections handling
• cowboy_req API cleanup (opaque Req)
• REST API improvements (better POST, PATCH support)
• Websocket sub-protocol support
• User guide started

Cowboy 0.10

• SPDY support
• Dispatcher API
• Compression support (HTTP + Websocket)
• User guide improved

Cowboy 0.12+

• Small improvements
• Small additions
• Automated testing of release upgrades
• Stabilization
• Final touches to user guide

Cowboy 1.0

• Stable
• Packaging? Cowboy for FCGI, Cowboy for WSGI...
• Cowboy book?

Ranch

• Logo coming soon!

Ranch 0.6

• Allow starting a listener for an already open socket
• Small changes

Ranch 0.8

• Add procket support

Ranch 1.0

• Stable
• Cowboy + Ranch book?

Bullet

Bullet 0.4

• Better transport for IE browsers

Bullet 0.6

• Automated testing of all supported browsers

Bullet 1.0

• Stable
• Cowboy + Ranch + Bullet book?

Farwest

• Kinda hard to decide on a logo for that one
• Ultimate goal

Farwest 0.2

• Distributed presence server
• Sessions
• Authentication

Farwest 0.x

• User-interface to build apps without Erlang knowledge
• Specialized distributed database for the temporary storage of sessions
• Library for all the common operations in web development

Other related projects

Upcoming trainings

• Erlang/OTP introduction (3 days of Erlang/OTP, distribution and releases)
• Erlang/OTP advanced (3 days walkthrough to build a medium sized system)
• Cowboy 101 (2 days of HTTP and Websocket, 1 day of web architecture)
• French/English, on-site or through pre-recorded online lessons

Upcoming books?

• The definitive Cowboy reference
• Building Erlang/OTP systems:
  • Building an FTP server from scratch
  • Building a worker pool from scratch
  • Building a distributed database from scratch
  • ... Ideas welcome!

Questions?

• Examples:
  • Is the sky blue?
  • Where do you find girls in Tokyo?
  • Etc.