Why choose Erlang for web applications? Discover the answer hands-on by building a simple web service with this book. If you re an experienced web developer who knows basic Erlang, you ll learn how to work with REST, dynamic content, web sockets, and concurrency through several examples. In the process, you ll see first-hand that Erlang is ideal for building business-critical services.

Erlang was designed for fault-tolerant, non-stop telecom systems, and building applications with it requires a large set of skills. By the end of the book, you ll have the information you need to build...