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 ...

Concurrency is hard. A language’s implementation of concurrency concerns can make the challenge of dealing with concurrency even more difficult or a bit easier. Case in point: Erlang. Erlang is a hip ...

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This outrage shows that modern solutions must be designed resiliently to enable service provisioning during incidents. There are multiple solutions to develop high-available and reliable services that ...

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WhatsApp, the instant messaging service bought by Facebook last year for $19 billion (£13 billion), now has 900 million monthly users globally. The cofounders, Jan Koum and Brian Acton, don't often ...

Whenever we talk of designing software, we talk of modelling our system so that it mirrors the real world as much as possible. We say that we conceptualise objects or services to make them similar to ...

SmartLogic Director of Development Operations Dan Ivovich on the Canton dev team’s switch to a new primary programming language, and why Elixir is the “real deal.” At work at SmartLogic. To say that ...