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 ...

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.

Programming Erlang: Software for a Concurrent World Moore's Law tells us that computing power doubles every two years, and we've enjoyed faster and faster computers ever since. But Moore's law is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Erlang isn't the most popular language on the planet but it is an interesting one, as is its almost indispensable framework, OTP. Author: Martin Logan,Eric Merritt, and Richard Carlsson Erlang isn't ...

The hardware we rely on is changing rapidly as ever-faster chips are replaced by ever-increasing numbers of cores. As a result, concurrency and parallelism, niche features today, will soon be a basic ...