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 ...

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.

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 ...

Overview:  Elixir is designed for building scalable and maintainable applications on the Erlang VM. Its lightweight processes ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...