Erlang is a programming language used to build massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. Some of its uses are in telecoms, banking, e-commerce, computer …

Introduction This section is a quick start tutorial to get you started with Erlang. Everything in this section is true, but only part of the truth. For example, only the simplest form of the syntax is shown, not all …

To install Erlang you can either build it from source or use a pre-built package. Take a look at the Erlang/OTP 28 release description to see what changes Erlang/OTP 28 brings over the previous …

Designing for Scalability with Erlang/OTP With this hands-on book, you’ll learn how to apply OTP libraries and techniques to develop concurrent, fault-tolerant systems with no single point of failure.

Erlang provides a simple and powerful model for error containment and fault tolerance (supervised processes). Concurrency and message passing are a fundamental to the language.

Many universities run courses either partly or wholly about Erlang. Courses about functional programming are also useful for getting a solid grounding which will then let you easily learn Erlang …

Erlang is a programming language originally developed at the Ericsson Computer Science Laboratory. OTP (Open Telecom Platform) is a collection of middleware and libraries in Erlang.

This chapter describes the most common tasks users perform in the Erlang Development Environment or Open Telecom Platform and is intended for readers who are running Erlang for the first time.

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When a port is created, Erlang can communicate with it by sending and receiving lists of bytes (not Erlang terms). This means that the programmer might have to invent a suitable encoding and …