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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BANGALORE, INDIA: Erlang, a programming language originally created in 1987 by Ericsson in its Computer Science Laboratory isn't exactly what anyone would call 'new', let alone the next big thing. The ...

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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 ...

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 ...

In February, Facebook acquired the company WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp serves over 465 million users and there are over 40 billion messages sent in and 19 billion messages sent out every day.

Described by its authors as a pragmatic and modern CMS, Zotonic is that and much more. When I started using Zotonic, it was because of its efficiency and the fact that I could pack several client CMS ...