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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Version 1.6 of Elixir, a dynamic functional language that uses Erlang VM, will have improvements for code formatting and compiler diagnostics. The production version should be avaliable in late ...

In February, Facebook acquired the company WhatsApp for $19 billion. WhatsApp serves over 465 million users and there are over 40 billion messages sent in and 19 billion messages sent out every day.

A severe remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Erlang’s Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Secure Shell daemon (sshd) is being actively exploited. According to a new analysis by Palo Alto’s Unit 42, ...