“With Erlang you could build a messaging app with many connected users and not worry about how they communicate,” says Chad DePue, CTO of Whisper, an app for anonymous posts that has opted to use the ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...