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 a programming language built for distributed systems from the ground up. Scalable, robust that’s Erlang for you. Erlang is one of those early languages which were based on the functional ...

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.