Even thought I'm just starting to learn it I can't stop wondering why I haven't got my hands dirty with it earlier.

Main reason I got excited about Erlang was the awesome CouchDB project. After I started to write Ajatus on top of that, we realized that we wan't to go further with features and for that I need better knowledgement of Erlang itself.

Few weeks ago I bought the awesome book from Joe Armstrong "Programming Erlang" which has been a great help and resource on the go.
And it didn't take long before I had first functional (minimalistic) version of the project I wanted to do with Erlang in the first place.

I'll definately be posting more about Erlang as I go, but for finishing touch there is this little piece "Erlang: the movie " floating around the net.

"Who cares if Erlang starts slowly - it was designed to start once and never stop - we have systems that have run for 5 years - a two seconds start-up time amortized over 5 years is not *too* bad" -Joe Armstrong