Erlang: a programming language built in a Swedish telecom lab in the 1980s, ended up running the biggest messaging app ...

The rise of fault-tolerant, distributed systems has led to greater programming complexity. Both Erlang and Elixir offer unique benefits for developing always-available and highly concurrent systems.

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 ...

Ericsson designed the first version of Erlang 20 years ago Erlang users outside telecoms include WhatsApp Code repository hosted on GitHub as open source The name is a syllabic abbreviation of ...

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 ...

You're currently following this author! Click to unsubscribe from email alerts. WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million ...

Joe Armstrong, one of the creators of Erlang, introduces this powerful language in small steps, giving you a complete overview of Erlang and how to use it in common scenarios.The second edition has ...

Because exploit code for a “critical” vulnerability in Erlang/OTP SSH is in circulation, attacks could occur in the near future. If attackers successfully exploit the vulnerability, they can ...