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 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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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 ...

WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million monthly users globally. The cofounders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, don't often ...

Building scalable, distributed and reliable systems is trivial in Erlang. This can be a hard pill to swallow for many enterprise developers. Erlang is a dynamically typed functional language and Java ...

Erlang is a hip functional language, developed by Joe Armstrong of Ericsson in the 1980s that explicitly facilitates concurrent programming by enabling distinct parallel processes (as opposed to ...

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 ...

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 ...