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Which companies are using Erlang, and why?
Once upon a time, Cisco, Ericsson, Klarna, Goldman Sachs, T-Mobile, WhatsApp, Amazon and many other top companies kept a secret. Erlang was that badly kept secret. Discover more on our blog.
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Twenty Years of Open Source Erlang: A Retrospective from the trenches
Erlang was released as Open Source by Ericsson 8 December 1998. What made it all happen? Find out the story behind continuing to build products to make the world a better place with tools for fault tolerant and scalable systems available to the masses.
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Erlang 19.0 Garbage Collector
Each Erlang process has its own stack and heap which are allocated in the same memory block. When the stack and the heap meet, the garbage collector is triggered and memory is reclaimed. Find out more on our blog.
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Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Let's Talk Concurrency with Sir Tony Hoare
When considering the panel to discuss concurrency, you’d be pushed to find a higher calibre than Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, and Carl Hewitt.
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Optimising for Concurrency: Comparing the BEAM and JVM virtual machines
Explore the internals of the BEAM VM in comparison to the JVM, highlighting the significance of understanding these components.
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Why scaling and parallelism remain hard even with new tools and languages
Distributed computing and designing a system that supports modern commerce and other high-priority applications remains one of the most difficult tasks in computing. We provide expert tips.
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Remembering Joe, a Quarter of a Century of Inspiration and Friendship
Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.
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The Beam
In Lorena's latest instalment, learn about the foundations of Elixir's power and reliability with the Erlang Virtual Machine (BEAM).