Building Web Applications with Erlang

Preface

1. Building Scalable Systems with Erlang and REST
-Why Erlang?
-Why Web Services? Why REST?
-New Opportunities for Scaling and Resilience

2. Getting Started with Yaws
-Working with Yaws
-Dynamic Content in Yaws
-Templates
-Logging

3. Appmods: Dynamic Content in Yaws
-Appmod Configuration
-When the URI Does Not Correspond to a File
-Cookies
-Session Handling
-Access Control
-Interacting with Erlang Services and Business Logic Layers

4. Implementing REST
-Decoding a Request
-Response and Headers
-Building the Response
-Responding to the REST Request
-A Full Example

5. File Upload
-The File Upload Request
-Saving to Disk
-Putting It All Together
-Storage in a Distributed System
-Saving to Amazon S3

6. WebSockets
-The WebSocket Request
-Basic WebSocket Handler
-Advanced WebSocket Handler

7. Streaming
-Simple Streaming

8. Using the HTTP Client
-Making a Request
-Using OAuth

9. Building an Application with OTP
-Directory Structure
-Building an Application Server
-The Generic Server
-The Multicast Server
-Interfacing the Server with the Web
-Some Client-Side Code
-Let's Have Some Adult Supervision Around Here!
-A Little Optimization
-Bundling as an Application
-The App File
-Wrapping Up OTP

Appendix A: Installing Erlang and Yaws
Appendix B: Beyond Yaws
Appendix C: Interfacing with Ruby and Python
Appendix D: Using Erlang with Emacs