The two programming languages are relatively unused by other technology companies in Silicon Valley.

Developed by Danish mathematician A.K. Erlang in 1917, the Erlang C call center traffic model is applicable across many industries and virtual telephony environments. It is widely considered a ...

Earlier this month, in a post to his Facebook page, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that his company's instant messaging service is now used by more than 900 million people. And then Facebook CEO Mark ...

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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 ...

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 ...

A critical vulnerability in the Erlang/OTP SSH, tracked as CVE-2025-32433, has been disclosed that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution on vulnerable devices. The flaw was discovered by ...

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Developed by Danish mathematician A.K. Erlang in 1917, the Erlang C call center traffic model is applicable across many industries and virtual telephony environments. It is widely considered a ...