“With Erlang you could build a messaging app with many connected users and not worry about how they communicate,” says Chad DePue, CTO of Whisper, an app for anonymous posts that has opted to use the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...