For Colissimo, ProcessOne reworked a critical piece of their events processing chain for the high-speed parcel sorters.
For the BBC, ProcessOne created and maintained a notification system for breaking news delivery to mobile devices that sends millions of pushes per day.
For a well known sports brand on a tight schedule, ProcessOne rapidly developed the infrastructure for a social platform of football fans that easily handled the traffic generated by FIFA World Cup.
For the BBC Radio, ProcessOne created a system to push information in real time to the websites of national radio stations about the programmes and music that were being aired live.
Several interesting technical ejabberd modules have been released lately: Rest module, Atom pubsub bridge, XMPP/AMQP gateway Here is a short description of this new modules: mod_rest: This module has been developed by Nolan Eakins. This is an ejabberd module that adds an HTTP handler that allows HTTP clients to literally post arbitrary message stanzas to […]
ejabberd and other ProcessOne components have become a strategic element in many customers infrastructure. We have recently relaunched our partner programme to organise tighter collaboration around ProcessOne solutions between the company and a group of leading customers. ProcessOne partnership programme is good news for companies that are using ejabberd and would like to put it […]
I will be talking in a London conference about ejabberd XMPP application server and Tsung benchmarking (HTTP and XMPP). I will be at Erlang Exchange next friday (27th June, 2008), to talk about: ejabberd for web 2.0 development: We have designed ejabberd as an XMPP application server that happens to be ideal to build web […]
We have just launched a new service to study instant messaging trends and share statistics and knowledge on instant messaging usage. The new service is called IMtrends and is currently opened as a beta service. It includes reports, blogs, but also a Netcraft-like service to get information on a given instant messaging XMPP domain. Currently […]
It’s a question that everyone is asking – and the answers are as varied as they are numerous. Only one thing is certain: instant messaging is going to continue to evolve rapidly and become embedded as a means of business and social communication. But how will technology evolve to support this growth? What features will […]
We have worked with MLB.com to deploy a large scale XMPP based chat system. It is a very exciting and fun project that shows that there is still a lot of place for innovation when building chat applications. Full details are available from ProcessOne news section: Major League of Baseball teams up with ProcessOne to […]
Instant messaging has been perceived as a productivity killer tool for a long time. A recent study shows that it is not the case and can actually reduce workplace interruption. Science Daily covers a new study from Ohio State University and University of California. The study suggests that employers seeking to decrease interruptions may want […]
A version 4 of the Windows installer for ejabberd has been released to fix a problem related to SMP support on Windows with Erlang R12. If you have downloaded a previous version of the installer, and if it does not work for you, you can give another try with the latest release, from the ejabberd […]
ejabberd 2.0.1 is now ready for download. This version is a maintenance release containing 10 improvements and 32 bugfixes. This is notably the first version of ejabberd to officially support Erlang R12B-2. You can read the Release notes for more details. The new code can be downloaded from ejabberd download page.
Facebook recently announced that their chat system is based on Erlang code running on a large cluster. It confirms that Erlang is a key tool for building large scale applications, especially for social networks. Like ProcessOne has used Erlang to build its Instant Messaging suite of tools, Facebook is using Erlang to build its web […]
Quick summary of the second and last day of the XMPP DevCon. On this second day, participants have talked about file transfer. There is some incompatible different needs (streaming vs offline/MUC, web clients constraints, NAT…), so we’ve finally focused on a negotiation protocol that would allow clients to choose the right method. The next discussion […]
Join a company of talented developers today ! We are working on innovative projects with one goal in mind: build the de facto reference instant messaging platform. We are now hiring Erlang coders to join our development and support team. You will participate to ejabberd development, customer projects but also work on the new exciting […]
The French Magazine Programmez has published an introduction article on ejabberd module programming. The French magazine Programmez! has published a full article on ejabberd programming in the February 2008 issue. The article has been written by Jérôme Sautret and presents basic ejabberd architecture and concepts.
