Agreed. This sounds like an ideal learning project for Erlang. Open a few tabs of erlang.org/doc/, grab a book (Joe Armstrong's Pragmatic book is a good one) a

Agreed. This sounds like an ideal learning project for Erlang. Open a few tabs of erlang.org/doc/, grab a book (Joe Armstrong's Pragmatic book is a good one) and get started. You'll be surprised how easily you made your first Erlang production system. (If this makes you feel guilty and you need to self-flagellate afterwards you can try packaging your app into a release.)