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 ...

Online bookie Bet365 has released code into the GitHub open-source library to encourage enterprise developers to use the Erlang functional programming language. The company has used Erlang since 2012 ...

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 ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper proves a long-standing conjecture regarding the optimal design of the M /M/s queue. The classical Erlang delay formula is shown to ...