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 ...

Last weekend, I spent an hour or so helping my twin daughters learn to read, write and do simple sums. Nothing unusual there – they’re four years old, have just started school, and are little human ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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