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There are other reasons for rewriting like getting to a more easily maintainable code or when a previous solution has simply outlived it's usefulness.

Also, C is not the only language worth rewriting in.

From R15B01 you can actually use "plugins" for process registering using the {via, Mod, Key} syntax.

Gproc supports this and using it you can do stuff like:

  gen_server:start_link({via, gproc, {Your, "very", <<"complex">>, key}, [...])

you can also roll your own.

Docs: http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/gen_server.html#start_link-3

Are you crawling for this data? Also, since currency is a tricky thing to price (almost any bank/broker can trade currencies) how do you select the "most correct" price?

Great project btw!

Hi everybody,

It's time for the second Spawnfest (48 hour programming contest for Erlang, much like Rails Rumble and Node Knockout) and this year it is scheduled for 7th and 8th of July 2012.

Our committee is currently working on sponsors and prizes. We've secured some of the big names in the Erlang community as judges.

We're very excited about this opportunity to show the world what Erlang/OTP is capable of! The contest is not limiting entrants to web applications, in fact, we'll be having nominees in different categories.

You can register your team at http://spawnfest.com/

Some financial services have already moved to the cloud, NASDAQ uses Amazon S3 for at least one product (NASDAQ Market Replay) and have done since 2008.

When it comes to banking the picture is a bit different. I know at least one small provider of banking middle office solutions, Five Degrees (www.fivedegrees.nl), is working on using the Azure service for some services.

Interesting times. As an IT developer in the financial industry, I try to follow this closely.

According to the article no customer data will be stored at Google's datacenters.