to get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model The actor model is a very powerful conecpt. It will become m

to get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model The actor model is a very powerful conecpt. It will become more and more revelant as multiple cores, concurrency, and scalability become more and more important. I think that Facebook successfully used Erlang for their chat system.