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Hey, David, great to see you here as well! (And yes, I remember those Linuxcare days well...) So "interesting" is obviously a matter of perspective, but in th
by danyork 16y ago
Hey, David, great to see you here as well! (And yes, I remember those Linuxcare days well...)
So "interesting" is obviously a matter of perspective, but in this case the simplicity is really the point - this is all you need to do in Erlang to send and receive SMS messages. http://tropo.com http://tropo.com acts as the sending device and the client device to interact with the SMS networks. You simply communicate with Tropo using JSON over HTTP.
Personally, I find apps like this interesting... but others obviously may not.
Zhao Lu has written a couple of other posts recently creating similar apps in Go and Scala.
P.S. In full disclosure, Tropo is a cloud communications service of my employer, Voxeo, but even if it weren't, I still would've submitted the link because I think the article is cool :-)
- davidw 16y agoThe comparison really comes down to "what do you need to do to send json over http in various languages". The fact that the service at the other end happens to send sms's, as opposed to causing monkeys to fly out someone's nose is sort of incidental. That said, Tropo does look pretty cool, and a whole lot more useful than monkey-nose web services. I was kind of hoping it was something to do with this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_%28protocol%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMI_%28protocol%29 I had some contact with a system handling that stuff last year, and it was just screaming to be written in Erlang.