Don't know if you'll see this, but as someone playing with both node and erlang, I'd love to hear more about your erlang setup (and your blog was down earlier when I looked).
The way that SyncPad was prototyped was using PHP/MySQL. I ported that to using Mochiweb. I manage all of the queuing of messages through a relatively straight forward OTP gen_server and Redis.
The way that SyncPad was prototyped was using PHP/MySQL. I ported that to using Mochiweb. I manage all of the queuing of messages through a relatively straight forward OTP gen_server and Redis.