The rewrite ritual

Not that I am a fan of rewriting stuff, but there are some applications that I use to showcase technologies and from time to time I set up to rewrite them. As there is already a specification, its a matter of an exercise for new technologies. No over-specification and a very delimited time box.

Lately, two of these apps are a pastie clone and an url shortener. First I wrote them in ruby, them in python, python with twisted and now using Erlang and Mochiweb.

The code is on http://github.com/gleicon at uurl-erl and pasteme-erl repos, and as usual the html/css part is barely minimal. Also they are online at http://7co.cc and http://pasteme.7co.cc.

Both of them use Redis as a global increment and cache server, along with MongoDB for storing documents and stats. I find this to be a good match due to Redis atomic operations and pub/sub capabilities.