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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

RIP @ joeerl, thank you for inspiring it is great sadness that I share news of Joe Armstrong's passing away earlier today. Whilst he may no longer be with us, his work has laid the foundation which ...

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 ...

Long story short, I am currently working on a personal project to learn Erlang. It's a meaty sized project that has the potential to replace a 3rd party commercial application we have at the core of ...

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Engineering depends on with metrology units and performance metrics of many types. Recently, the member countries who define the International System of Units (abbreviated from the French Système ...

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 ...