How do you support 450 million users with only 32 engineers? For WhatsApp, acquired earlier this week by Facebook, the answer is Erlang, a programming language developed in the ’80s that is finally ...

This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents. There are multiple solutions to develop high-available and reliable services that ...

Concurrency is hard. A language’s implementation of concurrency concerns can make the challenge of dealing with concurrency even more difficult or a bit easier. Case in point: Erlang. Erlang is a hip ...

Erlang is one of those early languages which were based on the functional programming paradigm which was developed back in somewhere 1986 internally within Ericsson for proprietary use. The immediate ...

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Whenever we talk of designing software, we talk of modelling our system so that it mirrors the real world as much as possible. We say that we conceptualise objects or services to make them similar to ...

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Erlang is a computer language that puts a strong emphasis on creating soft real-time systems that scale well. Its special features include asynchronous message passing.